Poetry and Violence

Klappentext An in-depth examination of the Mexican ballad tradition of the corrido and its complex relationship with violence Zusammenfassung An in-depth examination of the Mexican ballad tradition of the corrido and its complex relationship with violence

Autorentext

John H. McDowell, a professor of folklore, director of the Folklore Institute, and chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, is the author of ""So Wise Were Our Elders" Mythic Narrative of the Kamsa and Children's Riddling," for which he won the Chicago Folklore Prize.