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Mexican Corridos Folk Music

Your search for information on Corridos can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on your subject. Try a Subject search using the following terms:

Ballads, Mexican

Folklore, Mexico

Folk songs, Mexican

 

Selected Circulating Books

Herrera-Sobek, Maria

Northward bound: the Mexican immigrant experience in ballad and song

ML3558 .H47 1993

 

A Texas-Mexican cancionero: folksongs of the lower border

M1668.4 .T49 1995

 

Boatright, Mody Coggin

Mexican border ballads and other lore

GR1 .T4 no.21 1967

 

Dobie, J. Frank

Puro mexicano

GR1 .T4 v.12 1969

 

Sionimsky, Nicolas

Music of Latin America

ML199 .S55
 

Reference Books

Reference Books are a good starting point for your research because they help you become better acquainted with your topic. Listed below are some reference books that may be useful in your research.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
REF ML100 .G16 v2

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
REF ML100 .N48 2001 v16


Magazine, Journal, and Newspaper Articles

Journal and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic.

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below. These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic. They are available via the Library Home Page by clicking on Magazines, Journals, Newspapers & More. Conduct your search in these databases by using subjects and keywords similar to those you used to locate books.

EBSCOhost
 Ethnic News Watch

GaleNet

NewsBank

Project Muse

Proquest Newspapers

 

For remote access to the library databases, see E-Resource Login & Searching Options.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.


Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you find on the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center – What is a Corrido?
http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/center/events/whatisacorrido.html 
 

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center – Guillermo E. Hernandez
http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/center/events/Hernandezobituary.htm 
 
Corridos sin Fronteras (requires Flash 5+ plug-in)
http://www.corridos.org
 
Folklore of Greater Mexico
http://www.indiana.edu/~jmcd/greater%20mexico.htm
 
Handbook of Texas Online: Corridos
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/lhc1_print.html
 
Discovery: Research and Scholarship at the University of Texas at Austin: Tejanos Corridos
http://www.utexas.edu/opa/pubs/discovery/disc2000v15n3/disc_tejano.html
 
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/mexican_songs/kiansis.cfm

 

 

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