{"id":8568,"date":"2020-09-30T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinomusiccafe.com\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T22:50:29","slug":"songoro-cosongo-part-1-literary-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinomusiccafe.com\/2020\/09\/30\/songoro-cosongo-part-1-literary-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"“Songoro Cosongo” Part 1; the Literary Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
The “Songoro Cosongo<\/a>“<\/em> song made popular by Hector Lavoe<\/a>, had its origin in the literary revolution against the racism<\/a><\/strong><\/em> rampant in the Caribbean during the first decades of the 20th century.<\/p>\n It turns out that in 1930, a Cuban poet and activist wrote a book of poems to highlight social & racial oppression against blacks. It was the first of several books we wrote as part of a literary revolution, (something like the “Black Lives Matter”<\/em> of a century ago) which eventually got him jailed.<\/p>\n Then, a white pianist who liked to play black-themed songs, musicalized one of the poems from that book. And yes, the pianist was chased out of Cuba by the government.<\/p>\n