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I think that corridos can be compared in some ways to fairy tales. There are so many different versions and they all have generally the same ideas. They are like stories that get passed down through generations and change along the way. When some one hears a story they may interpert the story differently then how is told and that is one way that the story changes. Also when a person retells a story they may forget some parts or leave out a part that they do not think is important. Fairy tales that are told by different people have similarities and differences depending on what the person feels is important and corridos seem to be the same way they change from person to person.
I agree with your comparision between these two. When different people hear corridos they inturpret them differently and then relay them as slightly different. Or they leave out details and change the corrido how they want it to be. Nice blog, I agree with those ideas.
↓ Quote | Posted October 9, 2006, 11:48 pmI can see what you mean by comparing the Corridos to fairy tales. I never thought about it that way but there are different versions of fairy tales due to things missing when the story is retold as with the Corridos also.
↓ Quote | Posted October 16, 2006, 7:49 am