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That's Why I Teach: by Felix M. Padilla Occasional Paper No. 32
Willie Colón is a famous, world renowned Puerto Rican salsa singer
from New York City who has maintained a never-compromising, radical, oppositional
voice for 30 years. In Por Eso Canto (That's Why I Sing), a 1993 recording,
Willie Colón provides his most powerful and explicit explanation
of how he has come to accept his political responsibilities as a singer.
In general, Por Eso Canto can be seen as Willie Colón's critique
of those who do not or cannot recognize the transformative, emancipatory
possibilities of their work and of their cultural practices. Since the late
1960's, Willie Colón has been an ardent critic of musicians who define
and perform Salsa music as just another form of individual or social entertainment,
rather than as a political, or cultural project. When you listen to his
music and when you read his interviews in magazines and newspapers, you
are most likely to find Willie Colón exposing the hypocrisy embedded
in music, which detaches music from the most important political issues
and conditions facing Puerto Ricans and other Latina/o people in the United
States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Hardcopy Price: $0.00
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