Ten For Today: Music from Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans
Jack Landrón, Joe Cuba Sextet, Willie Bobo, Ray Baretto, Emilia Conde, Jode, Ghetto Brothers, Jorge Calderón, Celli Bee, Omar Rodríguez-López
It is November 19, and on this day in 1493, Christopher Columbus “discovered” Puerto Rico, though I’d imagine the indigenous Taino would characterize it differently. According to the Genocide Studies Project at Yale, PR has been under some kind of territorial rule since 1508, and it has of course been a U.S. Territory since 1898. Anyway, some great musi…
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