A documentary analyses the importance of this figure within contemporary Latin American musical culture. The history of humanity has developed hand-in-hand with music, which has evolved in different ways depending on the era, producing its own characteristic, musical style. The figure of the DJ, or disc jockey, has been […]
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Technological acceleration?
I love the internet. I just wish I knew about more about how to use it. I am a technological illiterate. I admire the possibilities inherent in this medium. Steve Latham There are, however, some voices questioning our rush to all things ‘webby’. It is not all wonderment. […]
Ahmed Dickinson and his desire to “eat up” the city
After eight years in London his name resounds in the music scene. Ahmed was born in 1978 surrounded by bewitching Cuban rhythms and with the gift of being able to interpret and pass on melodies by composers born under the Caribbean sun. Olga Briasco By the age of […]
The testimony of Miguel Sisay
He was one of the survivors of the armed conflict (1960-1996), and his father and brother were among the 250.000 who were killed or went missing due to security forces during this bloody period, according to estimates by humanitarian groups. . Randy Saborit Mora . Sisay comes from the town […]
Sofia Buchuck’s Christmas in London
Artist Sofia Buchuck gives Londoners the chance to see how Christmas customs and traditions are celebrated across Latin America and Spain. Thanks to globalisation, we now celebrate Christmas in similar ways throughout the world. But in Latin America as well as Spain, specific traditions are still conserved and celebrated in […]