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- noun Plural form of
narcocorrido .
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Examples
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The 40-year-old singer, who had only recently upped his personal security, was best known for a series of "narcocorridos" -- songs with lyrics that celebrate Mexico's drug cartel culture.
Sergio Vega, Mexican Singer, SHOT DEAD Hours After Denying Murder Reports 2010
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The 40-year-old singer, who had only recently upped his personal security, was best known for a series of "narcocorridos" -- songs with lyrics that celebrate Mexico's drug cartel culture.
Sergio Vega, Mexican Singer, SHOT DEAD Hours After Denying Murder Reports 2010
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Vega, 40, was a singer of "narcocorridos" - a subgenre that updates the folkloric "corrido" tradition of ballads about revolutionary heroes to tell the story of, and sometimes lionize, drug traffickers.
Dallas / Fort Worth news, weather, sports, traffic and video from cbs11tv.com 2010
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Univision Music Group includes the Fonovisa, Disa and Univision labels, whose rosters include Marco Antonio Solis, Los Tigres del Norte and K-Paz de la Sierra (whose lead singer was murdered amid a wave of attacks on singers of so-called narcocorridos, or songs about the Mexican drug trade).
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The news of Mexico's bloody cartel war is reflected in a controversial folk-music genre called narcocorridos, or drug ballads.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Los Tigres 'repertoire spans four decades and includes so-called narcocorridos about drug smugglers.
unknown title 2009
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Drug ballads, known as narcocorridos in Spanish, have long been a part of Mexico's norteño music, which is driven by accordions and a polka-like beat.
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"narcocorridos" - odes to Mexican drug traffickers-was gunned down in his red Cadillac hours after he told an entertainment website that rumors of his murder were false.
Harper's Magazine 2010
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For years, folk bands that play "narcocorridos," or traditional ballads that chronicle the lives of the drug traffickers, have topped the Spanish-language music charts.
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For years, folk bands that play "narcocorridos," or traditional ballads that chronicle the lives of the drug traffickers, have topped the Spanish-language music charts.
The Telenovela Goes Narco Amy Chozick 2010
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