By Laia Mataix Gomez San Jacinto, Colombia, Mar 21 (EFE).- With the Cumbia Route, the Colombian Culture Ministry set out to honor the musical genre that for centuries has been the soundtrack of daily life along the country’s Caribbean coast. The route extends 1,300 km (800 mi) through 23 municipalities in the seven provinces that …
My KUTX: Money Chicha kutx.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kutx.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Strummer Meets Landero: A Musical Bridge Between Colombian Cumbia and London Punk
This year s
International Clash Day celebrates a whole conceptual and musical work by the British band, but will specifically echo words uttered by Joe Strummer in 1976 that continue to resonate today, and will undoubtedly continue to do so tomorrow:
“We’re anti-fascist, we’re anti-violence, we’re anti-racist, and we’re pro-creative. We’re against ignorance.”
The fine-tuning between The Clash s explicitly anti-fascist ideology and future Latin American punk artists feels natural. It can be heard in the several references to Latin America in lyrics such as Washington bullets , their entire