Passion for Hybrids: Gustavo Cerati and Other Latin Performers at Central Park SummerStage in New York

“Organizers of the Latin Alternative Music Conference are committed to two strong ideas. First, they propose that contemporary Latin music can be as radiant, diverse and restless as the 21st-century cultural landscape it represents. Second, they maintain that the music can find popular support without compromising its integrity.

There was evidence to support both claims at Central Park SummerStage on Saturday afternoon, in a conference-closing roundup of three groups whose only common denominator, aside from the Spanish language, was a voracious approach to hybridization.”

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