Not only that as time passes, but you also have newer generations coming out with corridos that serve as a way of passing on stories of this generation to the next. They were stories that I remember but it wasn’t until I heard corridos such as “ Los Caminos de la vida” or “El corrido de Juanito” that I actually understood All those stories. All my life I grew up hearing stories about crossing the border from my mother, grandmother, practically all the adults. They’re a glimpse into a reality that as Chicanos we didn’t have to go through.
These folk musicians and Folk songs are our chief cultural mythmakers, and they made our hard lives seem bearable.”(83) As a Chicano who grew up listening to corridos, I can say this is entirely true but It has become more than that in my opinion, Or at least to first-generation Chicanos. As Anzaldua highlights “ The everpresent corridos narrate one hundred years of border history, bringing news of events as well as entertaining.
Corridos can be a big creditor to the survival of cultural preservation when it comes to Chicanos and Mexicans.
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