Comments on: Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 8 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/popworldcup-podcast/2010/03/pop-world-cup-radio-roundup-8 Lollards in the high church of low culture Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:09:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Jonathan Bogart https://freakytrigger.co.uk/popworldcup-podcast/2010/03/pop-world-cup-radio-roundup-8/comment-page-1#comment-683085 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:11:48 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=17580#comment-683085 Er, imagine the above spoken in the voice of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.

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By: Jonathan Bogart https://freakytrigger.co.uk/popworldcup-podcast/2010/03/pop-world-cup-radio-roundup-8/comment-page-1#comment-683077 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:09:29 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=17580#comment-683077 The cheerful mispronunciation of every Spanish word is a minor peeve; I’m sure anyone who speaks any of the other languages in play winces just as much. But Honduras stealing from Africa? This cannot stand.

If Honduras (and punta rock in general) is stealing from anyone, they are stealing from Cuba. Cuban music for the past two hundred years has been least three quarters African; and West and Central African pop of the past fifty years has been explicitly indebted to Cuban forms. Honduras, as befits a nation with a Caribbean coast, has a minor but musically influential population of African descent, and punta rock is (thirty years after it originated in Belize) now simply the music of the western Central American coast. I certainly heard it in Guatemala in the early 90s, and I wasn’t particularly paying attention.

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