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How I Made It: Las Cafeteras
Latino USA
English - November 30, 2021 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsSociety & Culture News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Las Cafeteras are a band out of East LA that met while doing community organizing. They began playing at the Eastside Cafe, where they discovered Son Jarocho, traditional Afro-Mexican music from Veracruz. They quickly began to adapt the music to their realities fusing it with hip hop, rock, ska, and spoken word.
They are known for their politically charged lyrics, speaking out against injustices within the immigrant community and their experiences as Chicanos in East LA. For this “How I Made It” segment, we sat down with members of the group to discuss how they got started, and their work to tell and preserve brown stories.
This story originally aired on November 10, 2020.