Las Contrabandistas
Women protagonists in narcocorridos.

 

In the culture of the corrido, women are often portayed as purely submissive. A whole new era began in the 1900s. Women have been celebrated in songs like the following ones ever since. For more information, please visit the history site below.

 

Links:

History

Contrabando y Traición

Ya Encontraron a Camelia

El Hijo de Camelia

Juana Collares

La Chacalosa

Margarita

Las Monjitas

Bibliography

 

 

 

 

 

Website constructed lovingly by:

Azure D. Osborne-Lee & Lissette Martinez

Transcriptions and translations performed by:

Anna Alicia Carlin

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