Ballads
The narrative ballad, which has carried news, grievance and legend since the nineteenth century. The Revolution corridos and the photographs that ran alongside them, the border ballads, the accordion and bajo sexto of the norteño groups, and the later strains that made the form controversial again.
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- - Díaz and his cabinet. Porfirio Díaz with his ministers. About 1900. Díaz held power for over thirty years and left for Paris in May 1911.
- - Orozco and his staff. The general with his officers. About 1900 to 1912. Orozco's men wore red bands and were known as colorados.
- - Rebels flagging down a train. Insurgents stopping a train on the line. About 1900 to 1913. The railway is the setting of a great many corridos, since it is how the Revolution moved.
- - Pascual Orozco. A glass plate portrait of the Chihuahua leader, captioned in its day as a bandit chief. About 1908. Orozco won Ciudad Juárez for Madero in 1911 and then rebelled against him the following year.
- - Pancho Villa. A glass plate negative of Francisco Villa. About 1908. Villa attracted more corridos than any other figure of the Revolution, and they were being sold as printed broadsheets while he was still alive.
- - General Felipe Ángeles. A portrait of the artillery general on a glass plate. About 1908. Ángeles was a trained professional soldier who joined Villa, and he was court-martialled and shot in 1919.
- - Colonel Estrada. A glass plate portrait of a Mexican officer. About 1908. Officers on both sides sat for the same commercial photographers.
- - Huerta and Gamboa. Victoriano Huerta with Federico Gamboa. About 1910. Huerta seized power in February 1913 after Madero was murdered, and was driven out within eighteen months.
- - Villa, possibly at Ciudad Juárez. Francisco Villa photographed around 1910, possibly on the day Ciudad Juárez was taken. Chihuahua. The fall of Juárez in May 1911 ended the Díaz regime within days.
- - R. V. Pesqueira. A glass plate portrait of the Sonoran politician. About 1910. Sonora produced Obregón, Calles and de la Huerta, who between them ran the country for a decade.
- - General Carranza. A glass plate portrait captioned Ocarranza. About 1910. Carranza was governor of Coahuila and became First Chief of the Constitutionalist army in 1913.
- - Crossing to the United States at Ojinaga. Mexicans crossing the border during the fighting. Ojinaga, Chihuahua, about 1910. Ojinaga fell to Villa in January 1914 and thousands crossed into Texas.
- - Victoriano Huerta. A glass plate portrait of the general. About 1910. He died in El Paso in 1916 while under arrest by American authorities.
- - Orozco with his colonels. Pascual Orozco with Oscar Braniff, Pancho Villa and Peppino Garibaldi, photographed 10 May 1911. Garibaldi was the grandson of the Italian and fought in Mexico as a volunteer.
- - Félix Díaz. A portrait of the nephew of Porfirio Díaz. About 1910. He was one of the plotters of the Ten Tragic Days that put Huerta in power.
- - General Blanquet in camp. Aureliano Blanquet at a field camp. About 1910. Blanquet arrested Madero in 1913 and was killed in 1919.
- - Raúl Madero. A portrait of the brother of Francisco Madero. About 1910. He fought with Villa's División del Norte and outlived nearly all of them, dying in 1982.
- - Huerta and his cabinet. The general with his ministers. About 1913. His government lasted from February 1913 to July 1914.
- - General Velasco. A glass plate portrait of the federal general. About 1910. José Refugio Velasco commanded at Torreón against Villa in 1914.
- - Gustavo A. Madero. The brother of Francisco Madero, photographed on 5 February 1911. He was tortured and killed during the Ten Tragic Days in February 1913.
- - Orozco enters Chihuahua. Orozco's column arriving in the state capital. Chihuahua, 1912. He was killed in Texas in 1915 by a posse who took him for a cattle thief.
- - Orozco's entry, second view. Another plate of the column arriving in Chihuahua. 1912. Photographers followed the armies and sold the plates to the American press.
- - Durango during the war. The main street of the city in wartime. Durango, 1913. Corridos travelled with the armies and with the trains that carried them.
- - The dead after fighting in Mexico City. Bodies in the street of the capital. 1913. The Ten Tragic Days of February 1913 were fought with artillery in the middle of the city.
- - Villa and Rodríguez. Villa with General Rodríguez on a glass plate negative. 1914. Villa's column moved by rail, and the corridos name the trains as often as the men.
- - Colonel Servín. A portrait of the officer, his name misspelled on the original caption. 1914. Servín commanded artillery for Villa.
- - General Rodríguez. A portrait of the general on a glass plate. 1914. The corrido form gives a name, a place and a date in its opening lines, exactly as these captions do.
- - Rodolfo Fierro with Villa. Major Fierro, accused of killing the Englishman William Benton, photographed with Villa. 1914. The Benton affair caused a diplomatic crisis with Britain in early 1914.
- - Entrada de Villa y Zapata a la Ciudad de México - Archivo Vivo Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM publishes footage of Villa and Zapata entering Mexico City. The two commanders met at Xochimilco in December 1914 and occupied the capital together.
- - Llegada de Emiliano Zapata y Francisco Villa a la Ciudad de México (1914). The arrival of Zapata and Villa in Mexico City. Both men were photographed in the National Palace, an image that became one of the Revolution's defining pictures.
- - "Los combates de Celaya (1915)", imágenes originales.. Original images of the battles of Celaya in 1915. Obregón's defeat of Villa at Celaya broke the División del Norte.
- - Gathering the wounded at San Gerónimo. Casualties being collected after the engagement. 1916. The fighting followed Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, in March 1916.
- - Obregón at El Paso. General Álvaro Obregón photographed at the border city. 1916. Obregón lost his right arm at Celaya in 1915 fighting Villa, and became president in 1920.
- - Obregón and his staff. The general with Almada, Montaño, Villagrán, Carpio, García, Gaziola and Saenz. 1916. Obregón was shot dead at a restaurant in San Ángel in 1928, having just been elected again.
- - El Sepelio de Emiliano Zapata - Archivo Vivo Filmoteca UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM publishes footage of the burial of Emiliano Zapata. He was assassinated at Chinameca in 1919 after years of leading the agrarian struggle in Morelos.
- - Los Alegres De Teran - Hace Un Año (version original) Del Año 1974. The original version of Hace Un Año by Los Alegres de Terán. Their recordings set the template for conjunto norteño for decades.
- - Restauración de 'El grito' (1968) - Arcadia UNAM. Filmoteca UNAM documents its restoration of El grito from 1968. The student movement produced its own film record in parallel with the corrido tradition.
- - Ramón Ayala - Mi Acordeon Y Yo [1990]. Ramón Ayala performs Mi Acordeón y Yo in 1990. The accordion is the lead voice of the norteño conjunto.
- - Noticia De Valentin Elizalde En La Madrugada del 25 de Noviembre del 2006. A news report on Valentín Elizalde from November 2006. The singer was shot after a performance in Tamaulipas.
- - La Revolución Mexicana: Ciudad Juárez, Mayo de 1911.. Footage of Ciudad Juárez in May 1911. The fall of Juárez forced Díaz from office within weeks.
- - Documental Narcocorridos.. A documentary on narcocorridos. The subgenre emerged in the 1960s along the Rio Grande in two forms, commercial recordings and private commissions.
- - Revolución Mexicana 1910 : Reunión de familiares en EU. A Casasola museum piece on a family gathering in the United States during the Revolution. Exile and migration are part of the Revolution's photographic record.
- - El Corrido en la Revolucion Mexicana I. INAH TV examines the corrido during the Mexican Revolution. Before radio and television the form worked as news, with sheet music sold or given away to eulogise leaders and mock enemies while government controlled newspapers ran propaganda.
- - La Revolución documentada.. INAH TV presents the Revolution as a documented event. Villa contracted with the Mutual Film Corporation in 1914, making this one of the earliest conflicts filmed as it happened.
- - reportaje narcocorridos.mov. A report on narcocorridos. Bans were attempted by several state governments and the songs remained available regardless.
- - Documental - Banda de Viento - La Banda de Tlayacapan. A documentary on the wind band of Tlayacapan. Village wind bands are the ancestor of the commercial banda sinaloense.
- - Documental de las Botas Picudas Mexicanas y Tribal. A documentary on Mexican pointed boots and tribal music. Regional youth styles generate their own musical movements.
- - Demo "El pueblo mexicano". TV UNAM presents a demo of El pueblo mexicano. University broadcasting treats the Revolution as an unfinished argument rather than a closed chapter.
- - Grupo La Kalle (Documental). A documentary on Grupo La Kalle. Regional groups document themselves where broadcasters do not.
- - Documental : Revolución Mexicana 1910 - 1920. A documentary on the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1920. Porfirio Díaz had been president since 1876 and the Porfiriato ran elections widely regarded as shams.
- - Archivo Casasola, imágenes de nuestra historia.. A report calling the Casasola archive the images of our history. The collection is the foundation of the Fototeca Nacional at Pachuca.
- - Foro Once - Los de abajo. Canal Once's Foro Once discusses Los de abajo. Mariano Azuela's novel was serialised in 1915 and is the founding work of Revolution literature.
- - Café con Historia. Encuentro con la música norteña. Los Ramones. A museum encounter with norteño music. The genre emerged in northeastern Mexico in the late nineteenth century.
- - El Señor De Los Cielos-Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho (ESTUDIO 2014). Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho perform El Señor de los Cielos. Camacho's sierreño trio format influenced the corridos tumbados that followed.
- - La cucaracha. The Hermanos Záizar perform La Cucaracha, published by their label. The duo recorded a large part of the traditional repertoire.
- - Adelita. Amparo Ochoa performs Adelita. Her recordings treated the corrido as a living political form rather than a museum piece.
- - Canciones De La Revolucion: La Cucaracha / Marieta / La Adelita. A recording of songs of the Revolution including La Cucaracha, La Adelita and Marieta. The corrido functioned as the war's news bulletin.
- - Corrido de Chihuahua. Alberto Treviño performs Corrido de Chihuahua on his label channel. Chihuahua was Villa's base and generated a large corrido literature.
- - El Del Tatuaje- Traviesos De La Sierra ft. Ariel Camacho ( ESTRENO 2015). Traviesos de la Sierra with Ariel Camacho on a label release. Camacho died in a car crash in 2015 at the age of 22.
- - Lujuria - Ariel Camacho - DEL Records 2015 #ArielCamachoParaSiempre. DEL Records releases Ariel Camacho performing Lujuria. The stripped requinto and tuba lineup became a template.
- - Rosita Alvírez (Corrido). Juan Mendoza performs Rosita Alvírez, published by his label. The corrido tells of a woman shot at a dance and is among the most widely sung of the tradition.
- - El archivo fotográfico que colonizó el imaginario de una nación.. A museum session on the photographic archive that colonised a nation's imagination. Agustín Casasola ran an agency and did not take most of the photographs, and researchers found original photographers' names were removed and his substituted.
- - The Carranza house museum. The house in the capital where Venustiano Carranza lived, now a museum. Photographed 2015. Carranza was killed at Tlaxcalantongo in May 1920 while fleeing the capital, and corridos were written about it within weeks.
- - Entrance to the Toma de Zacatecas museum. The way in to the museum of the taking of Zacatecas, on the Cerro de la Bufa. Zacatecas, 2015. The battle of 23 June 1914 broke Huerta's army and is the subject of one of the best known corridos.
- - On the Cerro de la Bufa. The museum at the site of the battle above the city. Zacatecas, 2015. Villa's División del Norte took the hill and the federal defence collapsed in a day.
- - La Cucaracha. Cuco Sánchez sings La Cucaracha on his label channel. Sánchez wrote and performed across the ranchera and corrido repertoire.
- - La Adelita. Cuco Sánchez performs La Adelita. The corrido follows a fixed formula of quatrains in eight syllable lines.
- - La Adelita. A mariachi reading of La Adelita from a label channel. The song crossed from the battlefield into the commercial repertoire within a generation.
- - Archivo Casasola. A short study of the Casasola archive. Casasola founded the Agencia Fotográfica Mexicana in 1911 and bought images from foreign agencies and amateurs.
- - Trailer Documental "La música Norteña". A trailer for a documentary on norteño music. The genre's border character is central to how it is understood.
- - La Música Norteña Documental. A documentary on norteño music. Modern conjuntos since the 1970s and 1980s added electric bass, drums and sometimes saxophone.
- - Archivo hermanos Casasola. A piece on the archive of the Casasola brothers. Attribution within the collection remains a live scholarly problem.
- - Moneda Sin Valor. Los Alegres de Terán perform Moneda Sin Valor, published by their label. The duo shaped the accordion and bajo sexto format that defines norteño.
- - Presentación de libro: Historia de la Música Norteña Mexicana. A book presentation on the history of Mexican norteño music. Emperor Maximilian brought Central European music from 1863 and German, Polish and Czech immigrants brought the polka.
- - Pesado - Tributo a Los Alegres de Teran Documental Completo. A tribute documentary to Los Alegres de Terán. Their influence runs through every subsequent northern conjunto.
- - Carlos y Jose Jr. - La Cosecha (Video Oficial). Carlos y José Jr release La Cosecha. The duet format with accordion remains the norteño standard.
- - Bronco - Oro ( Primera Fila ) (En Vivo). Bronco perform Oro live on their official channel. The group brought norteño to a mass pop audience in the late 1980s.
- - Documental Corrido Sones y Pasiones (subtítulos inglés). A documentary on corridos, sones and passions with English subtitles. The corrido takes its name from the Spanish verb correr, to run.
- - Cielo Azul Cielo Nublado - Carlos y Jose Jr.. Carlos y José Jr perform Cielo Azul Cielo Nublado on a label channel. The younger generation continues a duo name established decades earlier.
- - Conjunto Tarahumara -Corrido De Chihuahua (Video Musical En Vivo). Conjunto Tarahumara perform the Corrido de Chihuahua in an official release. Regional corridos name specific towns and events.
- - La Adelita. Amparo Ochoa sings La Adelita, distributed by her label. Ochoa carried the traditional repertoire into the nueva canción movement.
- - Yerko Arenas y Pedro Palominos - Quiero Que Sepas - Bajo Quinto y Acordeón 2017. Yerko Arenas and Pedro Palominos perform Quiero Que Sepas. The northern conjunto format travelled well beyond Mexico.
- - Carlos y José Jr. (Ensayo Dedicado A Don Orfil Rivera). Carlos y José Jr rehearse in a recording dedicated to Don Orfil Rivera. Rehearsal footage is rare and shows how the repertoire is worked up.
- - Canción Norteña Los Cumaná de Coquimbo [Documental completo]. A documentary on a norteño group performing in Chile. The conjunto format spread far beyond the border it originated on.
- - El Komander - El Documental - Capitulo 1. The first chapter of a documentary on El Komander. The movimiento alterado of the 2010s pushed the narcocorrido toward explicit content.
- - 1968: la lucha contra el racismo. A UNAM history seminar on 1968 and the struggle against racism. Declassified documents later showed the Batallón Olimpia and snipers opened fire first.
- - Poj yääxy. Sonidos del viento. Documental Canal Once, México. A short piece on Poj yääxy, the Mixe sounds of the wind. Indigenous language titles carry the music's own naming.
- - Especiales Noticias - Sonidos de Oaxaca, nuestra herencia cultural (27/05/2018). Canal Once covers the sounds of Oaxaca as inherited tradition. Oaxacan village bands train musicians from childhood through community schools.
- - Rosita Alvirez. Dueto Azteca perform Rosita Alvírez. The narrative corrido descends from Spanish romances such as La Martina and La Delgadina.
- - La Adelita (Remastered). Jorge Negrete sings La Adelita in a remastered label release. Golden Age cinema absorbed the Revolution corridos into its musicals.
- - Gregorio Cortes. Los Donneños perform a Gregorio Cortez corrido. The group was among the first norteño acts to record commercially.
- - Historia de la música norteña Parte 1. The first part of a history of norteño music. The accordion and the bajo sexto became the genre's defining instruments.
- - MEMORIAL DEL 68. TV UNAM broadcasts a memorial of 1968. Authorities reported 20 to 28 dead at Tlatelolco while later estimates run from 300 to 500.
- - PEQUEÑA HISTORIA DE LAS BANDAS SINALOENSES || ¿CÓMO SE FORMARON?. A short history of how the Sinaloa bandas formed. The tambora, a bass drum with animal hide and a mounted cymbal, is the ensemble's foundation.
- - Los Constituyentes. TV UNAM presents a programme on the framers of the 1917 Constitution. The document established universal male suffrage, secularism and economic nationalism.
- - El archivo Casasola en la época de la Constitución. INAH TV covers the Casasola archive in the era of the Constitution. The 1917 Constitution was promulgated in February of that year and established land reform and workers' rights.
- - Sonidos del viento. Canal Once presents Sonidos del viento. The programme documents indigenous wind band traditions in their own communities.
- - 100 años de Zapata en la UNAM - UNAM Global. UNAM Global covers a centenary commemoration of Zapata at the university. Academic reassessment of the Revolution has run continuously since its centenary.
- - La Revolución Mexicana (1/4): La Sublevación - Documental. The first part of a documentary series on the Revolution. Francisco Madero called the uprising in the Plan de San Luis Potosí.
- - Zapata a 100 años. Observatorio con Anel Pérez y Josefina Mac Gregor Gárate. TV UNAM marks a hundred years since Zapata's death. His land reform demands outlived him and shaped Article 27 of the Constitution.
- - Al otro lado I documental sobre la música norteña mexicana. The first part of Al otro lado, a documentary on norteño music. Migration and the corrido have been intertwined since the nineteenth century.
- - Al otro lado II documental sobre la música norteña mexicana. The second part of Al otro lado. The film follows the music across the border it sings about.
- - Documental Banda Regional Mixe BRM (El origen). A documentary on the origin of the Banda Regional Mixe in Oaxaca. Mixe communities in the Oaxacan sierra maintain a distinct wind band tradition.
- - 20 de Noviembre - Archivo vivo. Filmoteca UNAM marks the twentieth of November in its Archivo Vivo series. The Revolution is conventionally dated from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920.
- - Revolución Mexicana, una revolución popular. Canal Once presents the Mexican Revolution as a popular revolution. The death toll is given as between 1.7 and 2.7 million, a range that must always be stated as a range.
- - Flor Amargo y Ramón Ayala. Flor Amargo appears with Ramón Ayala in a music retailer's series. Cross-generation pairings keep the older repertoire in circulation.
- - Canciones de la revolución mexicana (disco completo). A complete album of songs of the Mexican Revolution. Compilations of this repertoire were issued steadily through the twentieth century.
- - Archivo Casasola contiene fotografías de México desde 1900 hasta la década de 1970. A report on the Casasola archive holding photographs from 1900 onward. It is credited to the Casasola Archive at the Fototeca Nacional of INAH rather than to any single photographer.
- - El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez. 1958.
- - Gregorio Cortéz (Pts. 1 & 2). A recording of the Gregorio Cortez corrido in two parts. The ballad narrates events of June 1901 on the Texas border.
- - Corridos viejitos en vivo. A live performance of old corridos. The older repertoire is kept alive by working conjuntos rather than by archives.
- - Valentin de la Sierra (En Vivo) - Banda Santar Cruz de Villaneuva, Zac ft. Max Wizard. A banda performance of Valentín de la Sierra, released by a label. The corrido narrates the execution of a Cristero fighter.
- - La Cucaracha Corrido Popular Revolucionario. A library presentation of La Cucaracha as a popular revolutionary corrido. It is the best known Revolutionary corrido and is associated with Villa's army.
- - Norteños del sur - Documental. The Chihuahua culture secretariat presents Norteños del sur. State cultural bodies have documented the regional musics more thoroughly than national ones.
- - La Cucaracha - Corrido - Revolución Mexicana 2020. A performance of La Cucaracha as a Revolution corrido. The tune predates the Revolution and was adapted to it.
- - Jesse Turner - On Accordion Dreams (Documentary). A documentary on the accordionist Jesse Turner. The instrument arrived with Central European immigrants and stayed.
- - Los Tigres del Norte - Red Carpet 10 años MTV Unplugged. Los Tigres del Norte mark ten years of their MTV Unplugged on their own channel. The group formed in 1965 in Rosa Morada, Sinaloa, and began recording after moving to San Jose, California.
- - La Clave Privada - Banda El Recodo (official video). Banda El Recodo release La Clave Privada as an official video. Banda emerged in Sinaloa in the 1880s as communities imitated military bands using newly available piston brass.
- - Fi3sta En La Sierra - La HISTORIA detrás DEL Corrido (LA VERDADERA HISTORIA). An account of the story behind a sierra corrido. Corridos are still commissioned to narrate specific events.
- - Otra música de la Revolución: restauraciones de las primeras grabaciones de orquestas típicas. The Fonoteca Nacional presents restorations of the earliest recordings of Revolution music. Sound restoration recovers performances that predate the electrical recording era.
- - El Belicon - Peso Pluma & Raúl Vega (Video Oficial). Peso Pluma and Raúl Vega release El Belicón through a label. The corridos tumbados wave brought the form to global streaming charts.
- - La Adelita. Cuco Sánchez sings La Adelita, published by his label. The song names a woman who followed the troops and became the archetype for all of them.
- - Foro Once - Siete veces adiós (12/06/2022). Canal Once's Foro Once presents Siete veces adiós. Public broadcasting commissions work on popular music that commercial channels will not.
- - Documental: Danzón Norteño. A documentary on the northern danzón. Regional dance forms cross-pollinated with the corrido tradition throughout the twentieth century.
- - En Vivo Desde Caborca Vol. 2 - Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes Del Rancho. Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho live from Caborca, published officially. Live recordings sustained the group's catalogue after his death.
- - La Cucaracha. A mariachi recording of La Cucaracha distributed through a label channel. The song accumulated verses continuously as the war went on.
- - Mi historia en la música en los años 70´s | Raúl Gutiérrez | Desde Nayarit. Raúl Gutiérrez recounts his life in music in the 1970s. Oral history from working musicians documents the trade from inside.
- - Por Las Calles de Chihuahua Galan Norteño. Galán Norteño perform Por Las Calles de Chihuahua on a label channel. Contemporary conjuntos keep writing new corridos about old places.
- - La Dulce Presencia | Conjunto Profeta en vivo | Música Norteña Cristiana. Conjunto Profeta perform live on their official channel. Regional acts release their own live recordings directly.
- - El Paciente - La Historia Detrás del Corrido. An account of the story behind the corrido El Paciente. Modern corridos still follow the narrative conventions of the older form.
- - El origen y tendencia de los corridos tumbados - Sin conservadores. Cultura UNAM examines the origin and direction of corridos tumbados. The wave fuses corrido with hip hop and Latin trap and was popularised by Natanael Cano.
- - Deorro, Los Tucanes De Tijuana & Maffio - Yo Las Pongo (Official Video) [Ultra Records]. Los Tucanes de Tijuana appear with Deorro and Maffio on an Ultra Records release. Norteño acts have collaborated widely with electronic producers.
- - Studying a photograph of Carranza. A student examining an image of Venustiano Carranza during a class. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, Mexico City, 2023. The Revolution is one of the most photographed events of its era, which is why it is also one of the most sung.
- - ¿M4L4 Influencia u Orgullo Mexicano en el Mundo? Los Corridos - Documental. A discussion of whether corridos are a bad influence or a Mexican pride. The debate over the form's content is as old as the narcocorrido itself.
- - DOCUMENTAL: LOS NORTEÑOS DEL SUR. La Música Mexicana En El Corazón De Los Chilenos. A documentary on the Norteños del Sur and Mexican music abroad. Norteño travelled with migration and became a music of both sides of the border.
- - A que le tiramos - Poder del Norte de Arturo Buenrostro Ft. Bronco (Video Oficial). Poder del Norte perform with Arturo Buenrostro, released by a label. Monterrey has been a centre of norteño recording since the 1950s.
- - Documental sobre la musica norteña. A documentary about norteño music. Los Alegres de Terán and Los Donneños are named among the first bands.
- - Qué pasó con el vocalista de la BANDA MOVIL? El que cantaba la talega de café. An account of what happened to a banda vocalist. Personnel changes in regional groups are followed closely by their audiences.
- - ❌5 CORRIDOS PROHIBIDOS QUE NO PUEDES ESCUCHAR EN MEXICO 💀 | Parte 2. A survey of corridos that cannot be broadcast in Mexico. Prohibition has consistently increased rather than reduced the songs' circulation.
- - Las SOLDADERAS que Cambiaron La Historia de la revolución mexicana.. An account of the soldaderas who changed the Revolution. La Adelita became the corrido that carried their memory.
- - Peso Pluma, Estevan Plazola - No Quiero Acostarme, No Puedo Dormir (Video Oficial). Peso Pluma and Estevan Plazola release a track through a label channel. The style pairs the traditional requinto with trap production.
- - El Dr. Luis Omar Montoya Arias en documental sobre el corrido mexicano (2008).. The researcher Luis Omar Montoya Arias appears in a documentary on the corrido. Academic study of the form is concentrated in northern Mexican universities.
- - El MENSAJE que MARCÓ el FIN de CHALINO SÁNCHEZ | Documental. An account of the message that marked the end of Chalino Sánchez. Sánchez recorded commissioned corridos and was killed in Sinaloa in 1992.
- - ❌️La HISTORIA JAMAS CONTADA de Nazario "Chayo" Moreno y Sergio Gómez QUE NADIE TE DICE ❌️. An account of the story behind a Michoacán corrido. Songs commissioned by their subjects blur the line between reportage and publicity.
- - Documental "Corridos Tumbados". A documentary on corridos tumbados. Peso Pluma and Fuerza Regida reached the mainstream by 2023, with Drake and Travis Scott collaborating.
- - D Todo - Sierra Mixe, Totontepec (18/04/2025). Canal Once visits Totontepec in the Sierra Mixe. The Mixe wind bands are among the most accomplished ensembles in the country.
- - 🇲🇽🩸La Toma de Zacatecas - 23 de junio de 1914 ( Recreación animada ). A reconstruction of the taking of Zacatecas on 23 June 1914. The battle was Villa's greatest victory and effectively ended the Huerta government.
- - DOCUMENTAL: Ni buenos, ni malos; solo son Corridos Tumbados. A documentary arguing corridos tumbados are neither good nor bad. Mexican authorities voiced concern over violent content as the wave grew.
- - La historia de Chalino Sánchez: El hombre que cantó su destino | # 34 Archivos de Impacto. An account of Chalino Sánchez, the man who sang his own fate. His raw delivery and commissioned repertoire reshaped the corrido in the 1990s.
- - Uriel Henao: El Rey de los Corridos Prohibidos | Historia Documental. An account of Uriel Henao and the prohibited corrido. The banned repertoire has its own commercial ecosystem.
- - Prekavidos – Agüita de Coco (Cumbia Norteña en Vivo | Video Oficial). Prekavidos perform a cumbia norteña live on a label channel. Cumbia and norteño have shared repertoire since the 1970s.
- - Zapata Vive | El Archivo Z-001: El documental prohibido sobre la muerte del General Emiliano Zapata. A piece on archive material concerning Zapata. Photographic and film records of the southern campaign are thinner than those of the north.
- - Los corridos y su reciente criminalización.. The Museo de las Constituciones hosts a session on corridos and their recent criminalisation. Government bans on narcocorrido performance have been attempted repeatedly and the songs stayed available regardless.
- - Mujeres de la Revolución (1910–1920): Las Adelitas – Imágenes a Color | Cobran Vida. Images of women of the Revolution between 1910 and 1920. The soldadera is among the most photographed figures of the conflict.
- - ¿Quién fue PEDRO AVILES? Clave 7 | LA HISTORIA DETRÁS DEL CORRIDO. An account of Pedro Avilés and the corrido behind him. Corridos have narrated the drug trade since the 1960s.
- - La Caída de Emiliano Zapata | La Operación que Cambió la Revolución Mexicana (Documental). An account of Zapata's killing. He was lured to Chinameca and shot in an ambush in 1919.
- - El Caso Trágico y Perturbador del Asesinato de Valentín Elizalde | Documental. An account of the killing of Valentín Elizalde. Several corrido performers have been killed since the 1990s.
- - Corrido de Gregorio Cortez: El Error de Traducción que Encendió Texas en 1901. An account of the translation error at the centre of the Gregorio Cortez story. A mistranslated word about a horse set off the manhunt the ballad narrates.
- - Las mujeres de la Revolución vuelven a las calles con fotos del Archivo Casasola. A report on women of the Revolution returning to the streets in photographs. Archival exhibitions keep the period's imagery in public circulation.
- - La Adelita. Another Cuco Sánchez release of La Adelita. Labels continue to reissue the Revolution repertoire decades on.
- - Excesos Tecno banda | Episodio 1: El Origen… ¿Quién la creó realmente?. An episode on the origins of technobanda. Technobanda emerged in Nayarit in the late 1970s, swapping horns for electric instruments and keyboards.
- - Toda la Historia de Emiliano Zapata en 1 Hora: El Caudillo que Desafió a 3 Regímenes. A long history of Emiliano Zapata. He led the agrarian movement in Morelos under the slogan of land and liberty.
- - Chulas fronteras 1 Documental sobre Música Norteña Mexicana (resubido). The first part of Chulas Fronteras, a documentary on Mexican norteño music. The 1976 film is the foundational documentary on the border tradition.
- - Chulas fronteras 2 Documental sobre Música Norteña Mexicana (resubido). The second part of Chulas Fronteras. The film records conjuntos at home and at work rather than on stage.
- - Las Adelitas: Las Mujeres Soldado de la Revolución Que la Historia de México Olvidó. An account of the Adelitas, the women soldiers of the Revolution. Soldaderas fed, nursed and fought with the armies and appear throughout the Casasola holdings.
- - RAMÓN AYALA: La Vida, La Música y La Historia de una Leyenda del Norte | Documental. An account of Ramón Ayala's life and music. He was billed as el Rey del Acordeón and recorded prolifically from the 1960s onward.
- - Vania Casasola " El archivo sirvió para contar la historia de México" México 03.09.2026. Vania Casasola speaks about the archive and how it told the history. The collection holds over 500,000 prints and negatives by roughly 500 different photographers.