Corridos play an important part in Mexican and Mexican American culture. The name origin comes from the Spanish word meaning "to run" in Spanish this would be "correr". The formula of a standard corrido is of eight quatrains that have four to six lines that contain eight syllables. Corridos have a long history in Mexico, starting from the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 and throughout the Mexican Revolution. Until the arrival and success of electronic mass-media (mid-20th century), the "corrido" served in Mexico as the main informational and educational outlet, even with subversive purposes, due to an apparent linguistic and musical simplicity that lent itself to oral transmission. After the spread of radio and television, the genre evolved into a new stage and is still in the process of maturation. Some scholars, however, consider the "corrido" to be dead or moribund in more recent times (see e.g. Vicente T. Mendoza, "El corrido mexicano", 1954). In more rural areas where Spanish and Mexican cultures have been preserved because of isolation, the romance has taken on other forms related to the "corrido" as well. In New Mexico, for example, a story-song emerged during the colonial period that was known as an "Indita", which loosely follows the format of a "corrido", but is chanted rather than sung, similar to a Native American chant, hence the name "Indita".