Word: corrido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prosaic Thriller. The prosaic facts about El Gitano were as exciting as the corrido. He was the leader of an outlaw-band which often held up big mining companies on pay day, distributed the payroll to poor mountaineers. An illiterate former peon, El Gitano paid his debts by holding out a huge roll of bills. Creditors took what they liked. His "G," scrawled on a .38 bullet, was a safe-conduct pass through Sinaloa's lonely hills...
...week's end the balladeers were busy on a new corrido. In Guadalajara, Sinaloa Congressman Rosendo G. Castro had been shot and killed at a party given in his honor. But this time El Gitano was not the homicidal hero. He was safely under Government lock...
...Thomas Cook & Sons of popular music, takes especial pride in its Mexican list, and well it might. Mexican popular music is like Mexico itself: vivid, varied, unpredictable, exciting. It comes in many forms. There are many kinds of canciones (songs): fox (fox trot), ranchero (cowboy), bolero (slow rumba), corrido (fast one-step), etc. There are also polkas and a number of varieties of locality songs and dances. Their general characteristic is ingeniously broken time...
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