No suelo escribir en español en este blog pero creo que debo hacerlo más frecuentemente para así reconectarme con lectores que hablan mi lengua materna en las Americas y al otro lado del Atlántico. En esta ocasión quiero compartir el video de una entrevista que hice durante el SXSW a Tarek Shalaby, un bloguero egipciano [...]
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The last 10 days have been full of cultural activities here in Austin due to the annual SXSW conference/festival. The town-city of Austin transforms, for few days, into a hectic place where people from different parts of the world (mostly from North America and UK) meet. The SXSW is an interesting crossroad point for entrepreneurs, [...] Waiting in lines is one of the cultural practices of the attendees to the SXSW festival. Tonight we did again a very long line around the Ritz Theater in oder to enter the screening of a movie and we couldn’t get in. Yesterday we had the same result. We keep missing the opportunity of watching [...] The journey of cumbia, a rhythm from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, across the Americas is an interesting example of the power of Caribbean music to transcend national borders and provide inspiration for the emergence of new music styles. During the second half of the 20th century, cumbia was appropriated and hybridized in Argentina, Mexico, [...] |
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