Wald Elijah: Narcocorrido

Name: Narcocorrido
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Author: Wald Elijah

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Author: Wald Elijah
Publisher: Mlinarec & Plavić
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 36863

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Narcocorrido

Wald Elijah

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Elijah Wald: Narcocorrido

A journey into the music of guns, drugs and guerillas

Do you know that Mexicans on both sides of the Rio Grande (Mexico-US border) listen mostly not to Jennifer Lopez or Gloria Estefan, but to Paulino Vargas, Jefe de Jefes and Los Tigres del Norte? They are performers of the music genre narcocorrida, whose melody is reminiscent of mournful Mediterranean chants, while the lyrics speak of the harsh struggle for survival in an environment of lawlessness where the smuggling of narcotic drugs is a source of income to feed the family, firearms are as necessary for everyone as a car or a telephone, and the paramilitary forces in the Mexican hills resist every attempt to tame them. The author Elijah Wald lived for a year in that environment and, instead of losing his life, he fell in love with that music, which is unknown to the rest of the world, but which greatly influenced him.

Eliah Wald was born in 1959 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He started playing the guitar at the age of seven after reading Woody Guthrie's autobiography and decided to spend his life as a traveling musician. He first hitchhiked across the USA in 1975 after the bus he was driving from San Francisco to Reno broke down, so he discovered the world of long trucks with trailers and enjoying nights spent rolling over the Rocky Mountains.

In the early 1980s, he began writing for the Boston Globe as a music critic covering music from all over the world, and he also wrote about books, movies and immigrant life in New England. Since then he has written several books. In addition to "Narcocorrid", his most notable titles are "Escaping the Delta", a biography of the blues genius Robert Johnson, "River of Song", a book about the music of the Mississippi basin, and "Riding with Strangers - a hitchhiker's diary". He currently lives in Los Angeles.

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