Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas Summary and Reviews

Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas
by Elijah Wald

Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas
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Author: Elijah Wald
Edition: Paperback
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-11-01
ISBN: 0060505109
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Rayo

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Book Review: Trafficker Ballads
Summary: 5 Stars

Even though Amazon has it in its headline as the "(Spanish Version)," the book is in English. Nonetheless, explore the book by clicking "Look Inside" and make double sure it is in English.

Author Elijah Wald takes the reader to the deepest parts of Mexico and South America in "A journey into the music of drugs, guns, and guerrillas. In gathering research for his book titled "Narcocorrido," (Drug traffickers' ballads) the author places his life on the line. He could have been mistaken for a DEA agent and killed.

However, Elijah Wald "is a writer and musician with twenty years' experience covering roots and world music. He was writer and consultant on the Smithsonian multimedia project 'The Mississippi: River of song' and is the author of the award-winning biography 'Josh White: Society Blues.'"

In his book, "Narcocorrido" the author takes the reader with him in an unforgettable journey to the interviews he made of composers and singers of famous, sometimes political and dangerous narco corridors and their composers and singers. He interviews such composers as Angel Gonzalez, "The Father Camelia," Paulino Vargas, "El Maestro," Teodoro Bello, Mario Quintero, Francisco Quintero, The Rivera Family, Enrique Franco, Jesse Amenta, Juan Garza and many others.

The author goes in search of the roots, history, and the reasons some narco corridor singers are savagely murdered. He takes the reader in a dangerous tour to many towns and cities in Mexico and South America. He gambles his life and takes the reader from Tijuana, Baja California to as far as Chiapas, South America.

Thus, author, Elijah Wald,"...shows how popular music can remain the voice of a people, even in this modern world of globalization, electronic media, and gangsters who ship cocaine in 747s."

The experience the reader gets from reading "Narcocorrido," is one that he or she will never forget.

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