You Are What You Create: 7 Brand New Latin Musical Inventions
By Jasmine Garsd, NPR/Alt.Latino
In an essay about Mexican-Americans in the ’50s titled “The Pachuco and Other Extremes,” Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz writes that we “distinguish ourselves from other peoples by our creations, rather than by the dubious originality of our character — which was the result, perhaps, of constantly changing circumstances.”
On Alt.Latino, we agree with Paz that we are what we create — and respond by celebrating and discussing those creations. The music, the literature, the culture; the good, the bad, and that about which we’re not yet quite sure.
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