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| Mexico: Emo fans under attack |
| "Kill the emos," shouted assailants who had organised an attack on a trio of skinny long-haired teenage fans of the music style emo, reported AFP |
| 02 April 2008 |
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| Mexico: Folk musician murdered |
| The Mexican folk musician Jesús Pulido and his manager and assistant have been brutally murdered. They add to the mounting list of murdered ‘narcocorridos’ musicians |
| 26 February 2008 |
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| Mexico: Trumpet player brutally murdered |
| Mexican trumpet player José Luis Aquina’s body was found in a river in southern Mexico. Thereby the number of recent murdered Mexican musicians has increased to 13. |
| 19 December 2007 |
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| Mexico: Murders of Mexican musicians |
| Violent assaults on popular Mexican figures – which includes musicians such as Sergio Gomez and Zayda Pena – increase as battles for drug dealing territories intensify |
| 05 December 2007 |
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| Mexico's forbidden songs |
| Extensive article and interview with Elijah Wald, member of the Freemuse Advisory Board, on the Mexican "narco corridos" (drug ballads), which are often accused of glamorising drug trafficking and gangsterism |
| 05 October 2004 |
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| Shoot the Singer! Book |
| "Shoot the Singer! Music Censorship Today". The first worldwide presentation of contemporary cases of music censorship, with cases from i.a. Burma, Mexico, Middle East, France, Algeria, Zimbabwe, USA, South Africa, Turkey. Edited by Freemuse director Marie Korpe, published by Zed Books, May 2004. |
| 25 May 2004 |
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| Mexico: Country profile |
Excerpt from 'A Survey Of Censorship And Restrictions On Music In Spanish America'
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| 25 February 2002 |
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| 1700-1899 |
Freemusepedia timeline: South America: 1700-1899
Mexico: 'Son jarocho'. Trinidad, Dominica, Martinique and Guadeloupe: 'Tambu'. Puerto Rica: 'Danza'. Trinidad: Drums. Brazil: 'Capoeira' |
| 01 January 2001 |
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