With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero (Texas Classics)

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"With his pistol in his hand" : a border ballad and its hero

Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Paredes did a complete job of research on the man and events behind one of the most famous border corridos ballads of all, about Gregorio Cortez. Paredes came from the area where Cortez lived. He interviewed people who knew Cortez and knew about what happened, and created an excellent picture of life for Hispanics in South Texas around the turn of the 20th Century a few years before the Mexican Revolution broke out.

It was a very creative idea to do a social science research project on a ballad and Paredes carried it off with style. It's a hard book to put down. Book is for a folklore class.

Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I have mixed feelings. Living in Texas, and having spent considerable time in the Rio Grande Valley, and residing in central and southeast Texas for more than fifty years, I have come to understand the difference between a boundary and a border; a distinction our Congress does not appreciate. In the first ten percent of the book, Parades does a superb job defining the difference as it applies to Texas. This book is about the border and the everyday lives of the real people who live there.

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Our politicians in Washington have treated the Rio Grande Valley solely as a boundary, ruining it with an ugly ten foot iron wall by creating a useless boundary. The story of Gregorio Cortez, the outlaw hero, is interesting and by contrasting probable fact with folklore in the border region, the book is a fair analysis of the local culture.

Ok, but not great. Texas Monthly rated the book on its ten most "Need to Read", list, but read some J. One person found this helpful.

Deftly woven into the story is a portrait of the border country and its history. Find a copy online Links to this item Table of contents. Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item Details Additional Physical Format: Biography, Internet resource Document Type: Find more information about: Publisher Synopsis "To see why Gregorio became a folk hero, one only has to remember that in practice there was one law for Anglo-Texans, another for Texas Mexicans.

User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Similar Items Related Subjects: Cortez, Gregorio -- Studies. El corrido de Gregorio Cortez Ballad Outlaws. User lists with this item 3 Latinidad en Estados Unidos 96 items by schusterp updated about a month ago. Linked Data More info about Linked Data. Gregorio Cortez, the legend and the life. The country -- The legend -- The man -- Part two: El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez, a ballad of border conflict.

"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero

Home About Help Search. Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions. Remember me on this computer. Cancel Forgot your password? If the only work Paredes gave us was Chapter 7: Gregorio Cortez, A Study, we could still never repay him. Aug 22, Patrick Cook rated it really liked it Shelves: This is an excellent work of historical ethnography.

I'm from South Texas but I knew nothing of the events, or the oral tradition, described. May 10, Arin rated it it was ok Shelves: Mar 30, Brandon Milton rated it really liked it. An enjoyable presentation of the legend and facts regarding Gregorio Cortez and his valiant life on the run. This work not only explains how the legend and corrido differ from the facts, but also attempts to explain why they differ.

Further, Paredes puts the corrido into a wider scope and analyzes its effects on the greater ballad scene as a whole. He also analyzes how it was affected by earlier ballads and styles.

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Overall, Paredes presents the legend and correlated facts in an entertaining fashio An enjoyable presentation of the legend and facts regarding Gregorio Cortez and his valiant life on the run. Overall, Paredes presents the legend and correlated facts in an entertaining fashion, where the book reads like a fictional tale rather than a recounting of events.

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He does so in a way, however, that makes the reader continuously question the relation between fact and legend. How did this fact lend itself into the legend? What affected the alterations? The latter half of the volume, containing Paredes' analysis of the larger corrido and ballad scene and its relation with El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez and its many variants is solid.

Although its language is mostly academic, it is an interesting and seemingly objective analysis that makes the reader ponder the workings of the oral story, one that is no longer in wide popularity today. While reading, the importance of this work should also be kept in mind.

The volume was written in the s, when Academia was usually exclusive to white males. Paredes, by presenting a detailed academic analysis of factual events that were usually portrayed through a racist lens, broke ground with this volume. Although it is dry at times, this is an exceptional read. Jul 17, Esther Cervantes rated it really liked it Shelves: Why I decided to read this in August , a week and change into the police brutality crisis in Ferguson, Missouri: I'm just old enough to have been raised by mid-century Texas Me Why I decided to read this in August , a week and change into the police brutality crisis in Ferguson, Missouri: I'm just old enough to have been raised by mid-century Texas Mexicans, and the cultural assumptions and quirks that Paredes both relates and implies, through his own biases, feel strangely cozy to me.

Reads like a good warm bath. Aug 14, Sonia rated it liked it. An informative, historical read

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