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Word: corrido (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South of the Bravo | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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