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Obama- McCain debate preview- through Cuban decimas

06/25/08

Celina Y Reutilio

Here's what an Obama-McCain debate might sound like if they they were both Cuban, guitar-playing, Guajiros:






For the Spanish-challenged, there's an age difference between the two singers.

Las Decimas is the Latin American version African-American insulting or "cutting" or "dissing" game, "The Dozens." In the Cuban, Latin American version, two men (always, I think) take turns insulting each other to musical accompaniment.

Similar to a Guirado family reunion, these Panamanian gentlemen insult each other to the delight of disinterested onlookers (In the Guirado version, those would be our neighbors, and, later, the local authorities.)

Tags: cuban insult game, guajiro music, what is decimas
By nguirado ( Email ), 02:10:28 pm, 101 words
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Comment from: Carlton Solomon [Visitor]
You know Albita, the exiled Cuban singer who lives in Miami? Her Mother and late Father engaged in those lively musical "controversias." They appear to have been the first married couple to do such, but not the first different-sexed.
06/26/08 @ 11:46

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