Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...source of income and a lifestyle all its own. According to Jorge Garces, a street performer with the Peruvian folk music group Inca Sun, street performance is a much more common profession in his native South America. "For us it is a tradition," he explains. Indeed, from Homer to Spanish gypsies, minstrelsy may be the civilized world's third-oldest profession--after, of course, prostitution and law. Unfortunately, says Ned Landin, a street performer known to his following as "Flathead," street performance is about as venerated in the United States as numbers one and two. "Here you get bumped into...
...moved to Corpus Christi and plunged into the music business. "We went to Corpus Christi to put food on the table when I was 6-1/2," Selena said in the Time interview. "We would play for family weddings. When I was eight I recorded my first song in Spanish, a country song. When I was nine we started a Tex-Mex band." She stuck with it, spending much of her time as a teenager on the road and getting her high-school diploma through a correspondence course. In 1989 she and her band, Los Dinos, got their big break...
...form of dance pop that combines Top 40 melodies with the rhythms of Colombian cumbia and traditional Texas conjunto-the border music influenced by Czech and German polkas, featuring accordions and bajo sexto guitars. Selena's lyrics, which were often written in English and then translated into Spanish, are straightforward and simple. At the time of her death, Selena was working on her first English- language record, one that many felt would help her cross over as Gloria Estefan did. "She was one of us," said Rosemary Escamilla of Corpus Christi. "I'd see her at Wal-Mart...
...called Canada's action "a lawless act against the sovereignty of a member state of the European Union." This is simply two-faced talk. Predictably, the Spanish played it up. Protests drew thousands of demonstrators carrying Canadian flags marred with a skull and crossbones, angrily calling the Canadians 'pirates...
Spain has a well-established and notorious reputation for devastating other countries' fishing grounds. The EU has excluded Spain from some of its own fisheries; when Namibia won independence in 1990, one of its first acts as a nation was to kick out the greedy Spanish. Canadian officials discovered that the seized Spanish vessel had been fitted with a second bottom for tons of illicit catch, and that it possessed illegal secondary nets to trap protected species. Many sources inside the EU say privately that there is "a lot of admiration for what Canada did." But at the same time...