CUBAN TRANSITIONS

As we considered Hip Hop in Cuba in class, I fell in love with the band Orishas.  Their rhythms were contagious, and soon I was creating entire playlists of their enchanting songs.  The music is distinctly Cuban, as the band members self describe themselves as a mix of traditional Cuban rhythms and hip hop.  The […]

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In their text concerning Cuba and tourism, Joseph L. Scarpaci and Armando H. Portela venture to discover “the magnetism of Cuba for the international tourist, regardless of the merits and detriments of the communist government” (114). As the text proceeds to explain, in spite of Cuba’s controlling and repressive government, it nevertheless draws a large […]

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