In Cuba, culture flourishes and the Cuban Rap Agency will see that it is not used by outside forces to try to destabilize the revolution, but rather is used to deepen the consciousness of youth on the island in the service of deepening the revolution. As Belafonte said, “What I think was important is how open the leadership was to this thing called hip-hop, whereas in the United States we do so much to demonize the culture, and we don’t even have a Ministry of Culture in this country. But here we have Cuba, with a new form of music that came from another place, from the United States of America, and they were open to giving it assistance, to help develop hip-hop music in Cuba.” --Hip Hop & the Cuban Revolution
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:19:15 +0000
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