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ResearchJournal article9 December 2024

De la hambruna de la marihuana al Premio Nobel de Literatura: bonanza marimbera y vallenato en el Caribe colombiano (1976-1985)

Franklin R. Bonivento van Grieken

Anuario de Historia Regional y de las Fronteras

A study of the mark the marimberos left on vallenato during the marijuana bonanza of 1976 to 1985, using the greetings and shout-outs in the songs as its main source. The author works from a corpus of 751 songs on 70 albums and reports that every album of 1976 to 1978 greets at least one marimbero. He describes the traffickers as patrons of vallenato singers and reads songs such as the 1977 "Campesino desamparado" as accounts of rural people turning to the crop. He also records that marijuana was planted commercially on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta foothills in the early 1970s and carried by older trade routes to towns such as Codazzi, Becerril, Riohacha and Maicao, from where it was flown to Florida, and glosses Santa Marta Gold as named for its yellowish leaves.

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DOI10.18273/revanu.v29n2-2024008

CountryColombia

Growing regionNorthern Colombia

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2024-12-09 2026-11-02 De la hambruna de la marihuana al Premio Nobel de Literatura: bonanza marimbera y vallenato en el Caribe colombiano (1976-1985) Journal article Culture Franklin R. Bonivento van Grieken Anuario de Historia Regional y de las Fronteras 2024 10.18273/revanu.v29n2-2024008 https://doi.org/10.18273/revanu.v29n2-2024008 A study of the mark the marimberos left on vallenato during the marijuana bonanza of 1976 to 1985, using the greetings and shout-outs in the songs as its main source. The author works from a corpus of 751 songs on 70 albums and reports that every album of 1976 to 1978 greets at least one marimbero. He describes the traffickers as patrons of vallenato singers and reads songs such as the 1977 "Campesino desamparado" as accounts of rural people turning to the crop. He also records that marijuana was planted commercially on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta foothills in the early 1970s and carried by older trade routes to towns such as Codazzi, Becerril, Riohacha and Maicao, from where it was flown to Florida, and glosses Santa Marta Gold as named for its yellowish leaves. Colombia Northern Colombia