corrido

Born in the late 18th century, corridos flourished after the Mexican Independence War, with "the golden period" culminating with the Mexican Revolution one century later. Corridos were meant to spread news through the Mexican territory by folk singers who usually just accompanied the song with a guitar. Lyrically corridos follow a simple structure where they introduce themselves, proceed to tell a story, and telling the moral of the story at the end. Time signatures are mostly 3/4 with the verses consisting of 8 syllables. Recently the theme of corridos has been focused towards drug kingpins creating the so-called "narco-corridos", being closer to the Norteño genre while retaining some forms of the classical corridos.