Corridos celebrating Obama’s candidacy reflect the song form’s adaptability – OregonLive.com
Tagged: Barack Obama, Mariachi, population
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: www.oregonlive.com
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Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Election 2008, Musica, Politics
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