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The corrido occupies a special place in the musical lives of many Mexican Americans. The songs frequently tell the stories of a people in the grips of trying times but often delivered with a contrasting upbeat tempo. Even in these sometimes woeful songs there is a constant lyrical quality of hope, resilience and perseverance.
The corrido is a ballad that traditionally features historical or topical information with the mentioning of a specific place, date and cast of characters.
Yet the corrido is flexible enough to be reborn with new generations claiming the genre as its own and then adding to the history with new songs about their own discoveries, injustices and ironies.
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Hernández, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University and lives in La Mesa.
In recent years, the various academic disciplines of ethnic studies Chicana/o studies, Africana/Black studies, Native/Indigenous studies and Asian American studies each celebrated their respective 50th anniversaries. Each is unique and internally diverse in its own right with distinct intellectual and theoretical genealogies and debates, as well as teaching methodologies and subjects of study. Yet what is shared by all is a grounding in concerns raised by the various social justice movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In other words, they are part of the achievements (and unfinished business) of civil rights in the United States.
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