Uprising is a daily radio program, produced at KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. It airs weekdays from 8-9 am PST. A weekly syndicated version of Uprising is available free to all stations.
(Originally aired on KPFK Los Angeles, December 29th, 2006)
GUEST: Sujatha Fernandes, author of Cuba Represent: Cuban Arts, State Power and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York
Whereas there has been much academic and scholarly attention paid to the Cuban Hip Hop movement, few hip hop artists …
(Originally aired on KPFK Los Angeles, December 29th, 2006)
GUEST: Alexey Rodriguez, Cuban rapper of the hip hop group Obsesion
In the first hour of Cuban Hip Hop: By Any Means Necessary, we presented a number of songs and spoke about Cuban Hip Hop in terms of it being a vehicle for criticism for Afro-Cuban youths within Cuban …
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