A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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narcocorrido evolution

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Modern development of Mexican corridos focusing on drug trafficking narratives

Detailed Definition
Narcocorrido evolution describes the development of corridos that focus specifically on drug traffickers, cartel violence, and the narcotics trade, representing a controversial contemporary manifestation of the Mexican ballad tradition. These songs document the drug war's impact on communities while sometimes celebrating or mythologizing traffickers as outlaw heroes. Narcocorridos raise questions about the ethics of representation, the glorification of violence, and the corrido's role as journalism versus entertainment, while continuing the tradition's function of documenting social reality from perspectives often excluded from mainstream discourse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Narcocorrido evolution adapts Mexican ballad form to drug-war narratives: Traditional corridos like “Contrabando y traición” evolve into modern tales of cartel violence; contemporary examples include songs by Los Tigres del Norte (“La Bala”); poets like Juan Felipe Herrera incorporate narcocorrido rhythms into verse; Cristina Rivera Garza’s hybrid texts blend corrido with experimental poetry; U.S.-Mexico border poets use the form for social critique.
Additional Notes
Narcocorrido evolution refers to the modern transformation of the Mexican corrido into narratives about drug cartels, violence, and border politics—blends traditional ballad form with contemporary social critique.
Also Known As
Narco-ballad evolution Modern corrido Urban border ballad Contemporary narcocorrido Corrido tradition
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