Cuuuuuuuuuumbia Digital: Transnational Cumbia, Deejay Culture and Digital Technology
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...
Category: music
Carnival Situations in New Orleans
I just returned from a wonderful time in New Orleans where I spent few days and nights taking part of the carnival celebrations. I joined Team Yes, a group of f...
The Sensorial in Early Tim Burton’s Feature Films
Grotesque, Gothic, and bizarre, are some of the adjectives that commonly describe the films directed by Tim Burton. Although their stories are often simple, Bur...
Dancing and Blurring Public/Private Space: New Year’s Eve in Cartagena de Indias
I have been back in my homeland, Colombia, and I have been on the road and on the streets re-visiting some towns and cities. I received the new year 2012 in Car...
Documentary Storytelling According to Les Blank
It is rare to find film documentaries that are narrator-less and avoid having a first person point of view. Even more rare, is to find documentaries that are at...
Lambada, the Forbidden Dance
Many times in north America people confuse my last name with the name of a dance and a song that was popular in the 1990s and that had an infamous video that sh...