Cultural Outsider Playlist (Comparative Analysis)
Hey everyone! Welcome once again to another installment of my blog :D. Last time the topic at hand covered a musical genre that was popular in my region however, this time we'll be extending our lens into another part of the world. That being South America which is home to the unique and endearing Vallenato music. This genre is heralded as the most popular music genre in Columbia, and traces its origins back to nearly a century ago in the 1940s. Personally, I've recently become interested in Latin American music, so this genre was right up my alley, with its succinct blend of African and Amerindian influences. Also, as a side note, due to a lot of the information for the artists below being in Spanish, I had to use Google Translate quite a bit to better understand the context of the songs and biography of the artists. Nonetheless, things can be lost in translations, so my apologies! We'll first start off with a collective known as Los Diablitos and their most popular song,...