Acknowlegements

 

Paredes, Américo. A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976).

 

Paredes, Américo. "Conventions which the Border corrido had borrowed from Greater Mexico," With his Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and its Hero (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958): 224-40.

 

McDowell, John H. "The Corrido of Greater Mexico as Discourse, Music, and Event," "And Other Neighborly Names": Social Progress and Cultural Image in Texas Folklore, ed. Richard Bauman and Roger D. Abrahams (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981): 46-75.

McDowell, John H. "The Mexican Corrido: Formula and Theme in a Ballad Tradition," Journal of American Folklore 85.337 (1972): 205-220.

 

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