Rap and Censorship in Cuba: Rhyming at Alamar’s Winter Rap Festival

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The Havana Times, that ever reliable information source on Cuba, alerted me on the holding of the Alamar Winter Rap Festival. Initially organized in 1995 as an underground music festival by Cubans who were influenced by the rap and hip-hop movement in the United States in the backdrop of the hardship of the so-called Periodo Especial, it has since become an officially-sanctioned event under the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Read More ...