I’m not saying that latin music is not diversified, nor that it is anything but great music. What I am saying is that in Cuba the type of music available (at least for a time in recent history) is anything but widespread. Or at least it was until Jorge "Papito" Serguera died.
Serguera was the man responsible for the banning of huge genres of music and artists from the airwaves of Cuba. One of the bands he restricted included the Beatles, a group he admitted to listening to in private and enjoying – though the public could not do so as well. That might have likely been due to the song Money (That’s what I wa
“Money don't get everything it's true.
What it don't get I can't use.”
Cuba is definitely one of those nations that reminds me of Hollywood liberals, China, segregation and the old USSR. The kind of mentality that divided people “for their own good” or acted to “help” the people since they can’t help themselves. The single-minded attitudes that claim equality and freedom for everyone, except if they think differently or want to act on those freedoms.
But at least Cuba, and Serguera, were upfront about their actions. Hollywood is not. Numerous executives and celebrities tout the banner of liberal, and yet so little is ever done about the disparity of movies and television to real life. Hollywood wants to shout about the injustice everywhere in the world, except in the studios and lots that it runs. Kind of like Barney Frank and the mortgage crisis.
There isn’t an overall theme in this post. I just heard about Serguera’s death and his actions to limit the minds of the people, to deny creativity, to kill the souls of freedom and expression. And I just noticed how much of that same kind of thinking exists today in Hollywood and politics.
A real shame when you think about it.
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