In this episode of Sonido Babel, we'll learn about plena: a musical genre from Puerto Rico that is played with a multitude of different instruments and deals with a plethora of topics from religion, events, recipes, advice, and even superstitions.
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Caption 56 [es]: y esas novedosas manera [sic] de sonar música, Caption 56 [en]: and those novel ways to play music,
Chus shares two delightful poems by Antonio Machado, one of the authors from Spain's Generation of Ninety-Eight, a group of writers and philosophers who were prolific during the Spanish-American War.
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Caption 43 [es]: el niño volvió a soñar; Caption 43 [en]: the little boy dreamt again;