Ana María Arango: "El Petronio y los multicultis: ¿La música del Pacífico le pertenece a la gente del Pacífico?"

Ana María Arango, de Chocó 7 Días:
"Al parecer hace mucho tiempo la música de los pobladores del Litoral dejó de ser exclusivamente de ellos y el Festival de Música del Pacífico Petronio Álvarez es una muestra de esto. "

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Los sonidos invisibles sobre la nueva ministra y el racismo en Colombia

Ana María Arango, en su blog Los sonidos Invisibles, habla del racismo en Colombia y opina sobre la nueva ministra de Cultura. Además, tiene esta foto buenísima que tuve que robarle - con el imagen nomásdice mucho sobre la brecha entre el boom de la cultura afro y las realidades duras que enfrentan los afros en su cotinianidad. Enlace

AI cartoon on demobilization/Caricatura de Amnistía Internacional sobre la desmobilización

I know, I know, first I'm talking trash on Shakira, and now this - I'm probably pushing my luck. But you've gotta check out this little animated cartoon by Amnesty International, making fun of the paramilitary demobilization. Link/Enlace It has apparently ticked off the Colombian government, according to El Tiempo. It's kind of funny, in that ironic-spoof-on-the-1950s-consumerism-and-saccharine-pop-culture genre that liberal white people seem to like, but the more important points are that it links the farce of demobilization to a justification for US aid ("don't worry folks, human rights are under control," we are told, as Colombian congresspeople and even a Cabinet minister are revealed to be in bed with the paramilitaries guilty of massacres, extortion, and drug trafficking for over a decade) and shows the "demobilized" paramilitaries becoming paid government informers. What this informant thing means is that paramilitaries and guerrillas from groups like the FARC turn themselves in to the government and are subsequently paid by the head for people they turn in to the government. They often invent things just to get the money and their victims, guilty or not, end up getting incarcerated if they're lucky, and kidnapped, tortured, disappeared, and killed if they are not. It's also pretty sad for the ex-combatants themselves, many forcibly drafted by these armed groups and then, demobilised, put into this kind of setting. Scary. And funded by the taxes we are about to pay on April 15 here in the US.

Fusión colombiana gana en Chile / Colombian fusion group wins in Chile

The Colombian folkloric fusion group María Mulata (featuring Leonardo Gómez of Alé Kumá) won a "Silver Seagull" awars at the Viña del Mar music festival in Chile. Link (translated)

El grupo colombiano de fusión folklórica María Mulata (con Leonardo Gómez de Alé Kumá) ha ganado una Gaviota de Plata en el Festival Viña del Mar de Chile. Enlace

Tego Calderón on Black Prode / Tego habla del orgullo negro

This from Raquel Rivera's blog Reggaetonica. Reggaetón pioneer Tego Calderón in the NY Post talking about Black Latinos between pride and discrimination - here.

Esto del blog de Raquel Rivera, Reggaetonica. Tego, en el New York Post, hablando de los latinos negros entre el orgullo y la discriminación - aquí (traducido).


<- Tego tiene madera.

Topsy-turvy

Can't stop the blipsters ...
or the wiggaz.

Is it wrong that both of these are on the same post? I am conscious that there are some kinda serious structural differences between black rockers and white rappers.