Mexican’s Sing Age-Old Ballads of a New Life - Idaho

Posted on: July 9th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ] [ Musica ] [ Idaho ]
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“Watching television coverage of immigration marches, Jose F. Garcia got mad. He got frustrated. He got his button accordion.

In short order, Mr. Garcia squeezed out the beginnings of a corrido, a kind of Mexican folk ballad that tells a story, often with a moral, and sang out the lyrics that came to him.

Now they are putting up barriers in front of us so we don’t return; “

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