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Viva “El Voz’ – Pepe Aguilar in Santa Barbara, California

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“When I expressed less-than-maximum interest in spending my night grooving to Tejano ballads, my editor jokingly accused me of being racist. I laughed, but as it turned out, race played a bigger role in my night than I’d expected. Though my enjoyment of the king of contemporary mariachi was certainly not colored by racism, it was partly hampered by the cultural blockade separating me from most other concertgoers. As one of a handful of white faces with a limited understanding of Spanish, I experienced the show as more of a spectacle than a concert.”

Posted on: September 24th, 2006
Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Musica
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