parandero

English

Etymology

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Noun

parandero (plural paranderos)

1. (Southwestern US) A barfly; one who is routinely drunk and dissolute.
   • 1934, Mexican Life: Mexico's Monthly Review - Volume 10, page 23:

     Don Francisco's lupine dissimulation was perfect. A weatherbeaten parandero, an incorrigible roue and a guzzler ...

   • 1944, Kurt Severin, Lenore Sorsby, To the South, page 224:

     Nazi infection took hold, of course, more easily among the usual weaklings, hotel-bar politicians and paranderos, or drunkards.

   • 1994, B. Traven, Trozas, page 41:

     May I be damned in heaven and hell, I'm looking for that drunken parandero, that tramp, my capataz.

   • 2008, Bridget Christine Arce, Troping Mexico's Historical No-bodies, page 63:

     The following section will expand on the image of Zapata as a parandero, but with a special focus on his reputation as a seducer.

2. (Caribbean) A man who performs parang music.
   • 2002, Moon handbooks: Guatemala, page 63:

     On the Caribbean coast, the Ganfuna communities are known for their paranda, most of whose practitioners (paranderos) are fairly elderly and live in Belize.

   • 2008, Kevin K. Birth, Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad., →ISBN:

     The possibility, however remote, was enough for one parandero to point this out as part of my education into the tradition. In retrospect, during the first night of parang in 1989, I learned far more than chords and rhythms.

   • 2008, Yasser Musa, Andy Palacio:

     Few people know this, but at a time when many young people were turning away from Garifuna traditions, Andy's very first recording was a song on Traditional Music of the Garifuna (Black Carib) of Belize (Folkways, 1 982), with late parandero Gabaga Williams on guitar, backed by a female chorus and Garifuna drummers.

   • 2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Even in Paradise, →ISBN, page 263:

     The paranderos, the singers, had arrived.

   • 2016, Alex Egerton, Paul Harding, Lonely Planet Belize, →ISBN:

     Paul Nabor was a legendary Garifuna parandero from Punta Gorda, Wilfred Peters was a Creole brukdown accordionist from Belize City, and Florencio Mess is a traditional Maya harpist living in the farming village of San Pedro Columbia.