
Currulao has arrived - but to where.?A video has come out purporting to teach you how to dance currulao, so there must be people interested in it. That's cool. But what a shameless way to take advantage of the new visibility of Afrocolombians! If you look at the description of the DVD, the music they have on there is what Colombians call "chucu-chucu." María del Carmen's version of "La caderona" is downright crapulous. It's good that they include the music of Peregoyo, but he needs to be in his context - his fusions are meaningless without talking about traditional currulao - but here there are no marimbas, no cununos, no bombos, no guasás, and no cantadoras. With all of the excellent groups from the Pacific that have worked so hard for so long to bring this music to the attention of the world, you would think they try and give one some exposure, but the Colombian mass media and music industry are too afraid of that. They have shown a completely whitened currulao, a horrible distortion, all in the name of selling the Discos Fuentes company's back catalog, which probably has not brought in any money since 1967. So, if you want to learn to dance like 40-year upper middle-class Cali divorcée after a pair of aguardientes (for example) by all means, buy this DVD!
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