Corridos celebrating Obama’s candidacy reflect the song form’s adaptability - OregonLive.com

Happy families and workers holding up candidate signs are standard campaign video fare. But in the video by Amigos de Obama, it’s the soundtrack that catches the attention: a corrido, sung in Spanish by a strolling mariachi band, a bouncing beat underlying strummed guitars, mellow horns and repeated shouts of “Viva Obama!”.

That makes this video not only a campaign ad for Barack Obama but also a sign of the corrido’s elasticity as a song form and its enduring power as the Latino American population grows.”*

*From: http://www.oregonlive.com
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