A Country of Music and Poetry The View from Paraguay
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As a Paraguayan singer and composer, I had the privilege of performing once with Mercedes Sosa in Asunción. When I visited her at a later date in Buenos …
Category: Arts, Language and Culture
Animating Peripheries
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The Museo del Barro in Asunción immerses the visitor in a collection of images and objects, often in a somewhat disordered fashion, not all categorized or…
Guarani in Film
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The first film spoken in Guarani I ever saw was from the United States. It was the movie Jesus (1979), co-directed by Peter Skyes and John Krish, dubbed into…
Chamamé for Dummies
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There is a traditional Andalusian dance, the vito, inspired by the “St. Vitus dance,” a name given to Huntington’s disease for centuries. Symptoms of this disease…
