Honduras Revolutionary Musician - Pavel Nunez Duarte and 'Cafe Guancasco'

10MB stereo 10 minutes.


Pavel Nunez Duarte, Honduras'  revolutionary musican and
songwriter, of the top selling band 'Cafe Guancasco' talks to
community radio about how politics informs their music. A teacher
of mathematics, a student organiser, and now active in the
Resistance Front of Honduras against the coup, he finds music is
'another language', his guitar 'a megaphone' to communicate the
social realities of Honduras. He can't say how he 'came to be
involved in politics' because it has always been part of his
life. It is more a question of why he can't leave it !  A
revealing interview in which even the explanation of 'Guancasco'
has a social import. A 'Guancasco, he says, is a gathering , or
get together of people in an indigenous community. You don't get
that, in the cities but, he explains, in urban communities around
the world you have 'Cafes' . Hence the name  - a blend of
the modern and the traditional, the regional and the
global. 


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