ANTH 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pg. 99, Semiotics, Drug Enforcement Agency
16 Sep 2016
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Chapter three: a narco without a corrido doesn"t exist . It is not uncommon for people to sing along to ballads called narco-corridos, which are a genre of folk song that tells the stories of men and woman working in the drug business on the border (pg. 86) the songs glorify the lives and deeds of drug traffickers Corridos: locally understood to heighten awareness of the violence connected to the war on drugs (pg. 87: serve as a source of transparency (pg. 87: almost always feature violence (gratuitous and celebratory) (pg. 88: the relative power of a narcotrafficker is measured by the existence of music narrating his or her story (pg. 7: treated as harmless and unremarkable (pg. 92: arose from a common and generally favorable disposition toward individuals who disregarded the imposed legalities of state power on the border (pg.
