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Feb 5, 2012 (Weekend Edition Sunday) — With Valentine's Day just around the corner, the hosts of NPR Music's Alt. Latino share Latin love songs from a time-honored tradition.|
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 The now-defunct Puerto Rican and Dominican American group Aventura. (Courtesy of the artist) The Romantic (And Still Relevant) Sound Of Boleroby NPR Staff Feb 5, 2012 (Weekend Edition Sunday) — With Valentine's Day just around the corner, the hosts of NPR Music's Alt. Latino share Latin love songs from a time-honored tradition.Comments |
It's February, and that means Valentine's Day is just around the corner. For Weekend Edition Sunday, that's as good an excuse as any to talk about love — and in particular, one of the great traditional forms of the love song, the bolero. Jasmine Garsd and Felix Contreras of Alt.Latino, NPR Music's Latin-alternative podcast, join host Rachel Martin to share some favorite examples. "While each Latino culture has its own musical traditions, instruments and even songwriting style, the bolero is the one Spanish-language song form that is pretty much pan Latin," Contreras says. "Boleros are love songs at their core, but they are so much more. They deal in death, religion, despair, hope and la lucha: the struggle of living." Copyright 2012 National Public Radio. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. 9(MDAxNzgwMTg5MDEyMTQ4Nzc4MjdiNWVmMw004)) Source: NPR Copyright 2012 NPR - For Personal Use Only
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