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- Description: In Puerto Rico in the 1940s, Mr. Rodríguez would entertain his siblings by improvising jibaro music after working a hard day in the fields. Like other Puerto Rican pioneers in Chicago, he brought his love of music with him to the city and continued this tradition there.
- Text: In Puerto Rico in the 1940s, Mr. Rodríguez would entertain his siblings by improvising jibaro music after working a hard day in the fields. Like other Puerto Rican pioneers in Chicago, he brought his love of music with him to the city and continued this tradition there.
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- Text: ...Spain for 800 years and influenced Latino nations in many ways. Mr. Romero explains how the Moors even contributed to jibaro music in their sounds and song chants. Maria Romero, his sister, remains a full-fledged member of the Young Lords in her heart. In the 1970s she ran the office at Wil...
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- Description: ...They would all have a chance to express themselves in a variety of ways, including discussion, with music, or in sports. The only problem came from the adults. Some wanted to make it more ecumenical to include the community at large and others wanted the organization to be more faith-based....
- Text: ...They would all have a chance to express themselves in a variety of ways, including discussion, with music, or in sports. The only problem came from the adults. Some wanted to make it more ecumenical to include the community at large and others wanted the organization to be more faith-based....
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- Text: ...Rafael Hernández was very popular and favorite. Pedro Flores, El Quarteto Americano, [00:24:00] other the people who played music. So he played like (inaudible) music, some country-western, some country, Puerto Rican music. It was mostly the popular type music th...
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- Text: ...They was always trying to figure out different 18 ways to channel that energy. And so then they got into the business of music, and they actually formed a music academy, and as a result, some of our top players now came out of that academy and are doing great things musicall...
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- Description: ...Hernández has been called the unofficial, “Poet Laureate of Chicago.” He blends folk, jazz, and Afro-Latin music that chronicles the pedestrian walking down Chicago’s streets. One of his famous poems is called “La Armitage” and features the neighborhood of Lincoln Park and severa...
- Text: ...His poem, “Immigrants/Liquid Thoughts” was included on the audio anthology, “A Snake in the Heart: Poems and Music by Chicago Spoken Word Performers” (1994). Today, David Hernández lives in Wicker Park, continues to be active in the community, and to collaborate with the Young...
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- Text: ...ing across the street from where the party was, and the party was for Puerto Rican and Latino. It was English-language 10 music. The cop didn’t like it. They came and knocked on the door and told them to put the music down because it was too loud. He went back across the stree...
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- Text: ...queño, the Puerto Rican Congress, and he was a big-time in terms of making sure that youth who wanted to be in the field of music, that he could set them up in the field of music, but the rule was, “You must do well in school.” And so, he began 12 something that many other ...
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- Text: We all went to the library together. [00:50:00] We were not troublemakers. There was music everywhere. See, I loved music. I always had a transistor radio, or I had -- my grandfather would buy me all types of things. My grandfather bought me the record player that you carried.
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- Text: ...He would give it to us every Sunday, and of course, I wouldn’t eat because I liked music. JJ: What kind of music? DJ: [00:48:00] Everything. Spanish, English, Motown, anything. I would dance to everything. And what I would do is I would take all my money, all my lunch money, ...
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- Text: He was a very [00:10:00] kind man. And when I came for -- I think I wanted to be in the music class, and they gave me a test on my ability to vocalize, I guess. And the teacher -- also very kind woman -I suppose she was very impressed because she got the principal to come to listen to me.