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  • noun Plural form of narcocorrido.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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).

    Universal Widens Latin Reach, 2008

  • 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

  • Los Tigres 'repertoire spans four decades and includes so-called narcocorridos about drug smugglers.

    unknown title 2009

  • 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.

    USATODAY.com News - Top Stories 2009

  • "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

  • 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 2010

  • 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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