[Xmca-l] Re: "15 La era está pariendo un corazón - Omara portuondo y Martín Rojas"

[HENRY SHONERD]

Mi Gente,
I was watching a terribly down, but beautiful, movie that was just released on Netflix, Ya No Estoy, about Ulíses, a 17 year-old living in a gang-dominated barrio in Monterrey, a totally cool kid, devoted to hip hop in the streets to the music of the Cumbia. He has to escape to NYC to keep from being killed. Ulises finds more violence and less understanding there and returns to Monterrey to his certain death. As I am watching the film, I hear in the next room my wife crying out in distress. I ask her why and she tells me that the Kimo, a beautiful art deco performance space in downtown Albuquerque (I live in the North Valley), has been burned:
 https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiMo_Theater__;!!Mih3wA!TMsTYBOglSLvWI4GpFSQfkVB9bQ2s5OoV_9pHiDkWrizHd9H2AheS8_iopyTfgXIw04bPQ$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiMo_Theater__;!!Mih3wA!TMsTYBOglSLvWI4GpFSQfkVB9bQ2s5OoV_9pHiDkWrizHd9H2AheS8_iopyTfgXIw04bPQ$ >
Then I see one of the most uplifting movies I have ever seen called Quincy, about Quincy Jones, who produced music with Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, as well as the We Are The World concert. 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones__;!!Mih3wA!TMsTYBOglSLvWI4GpFSQfkVB9bQ2s5OoV_9pHiDkWrizHd9H2AheS8_iopyTfgVDcgQrhw$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones__;!!Mih3wA!TMsTYBOglSLvWI4GpFSQfkVB9bQ2s5OoV_9pHiDkWrizHd9H2AheS8_iopyTfgVDcgQrhw$ >
This morning I bicycled south to see the damage to the Kimo. I was relieved to see that the damage was only broken windows. But I was saddened, disappointed and alarmed that such things are done in reaction to the death of George Floyd. To deface or destroy something beautiful in the name of justice makes no sense to me. And it plays into Trump’s hands. But to embellish the story from broken windows to a fire that might even have threatened the structural integrity of the Kimo, that is what an echo chamber does.
We have to do better, folks. Maybe we should be dancing in the streets and joyfully, if tearfully, to honor Mr. George’s death. Quincy knew what he was doing. So did Ulíses. 
Henry
P.S. So did Bill Withers:https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkaexjc-1os__;!!Mih3wA!TMsTYBOglSLvWI4GpFSQfkVB9bQ2s5OoV_9pHiDkWrizHd9H2AheS8_iopyTfgVeqYzrCA$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkaexjc-1os__;!!Mih3wA!TMsTYBOglSLvWI4GpFSQfkVB9bQ2s5OoV_9pHiDkWrizHd9H2AheS8_iopyTfgVeqYzrCA$ >





> On Jun 2, 2020, at 12:08 AM, Bill Kerr <billkerr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I ran the lyrics past a Spanish speaking friend and this is what she came up with:
> 
> Firstly, I love Silvio Rodriquez, but he is incredibly difficult to translate as his songs are definitely poetry too. Also, my Spanish is pretty rusty.
> 
> I read a few different people’s discussion of the song’s meaning, written in Spanish. I couldn’t really find any translation that made sense. They are all too literal.
> 
> This is what I have come up with.
> 
> The song poses the question of how we can live and enjoy our lives when there is so much suffering in the world. The answer is in solidarity.
> 
> La era está pariendo un corazón
> No puede más, se muere de dolor
> Y hay que acudir corriendo
> Pues se cae el porvenir
> En cualquier selva del mundo
> En cualquier call
> 
> This era is growing a heart (as in a collective heart/spirit) 
> The burden is too much, it will die of pain.
> We need to hurry to help 
> Because the future is breaking in every part of the world
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 5:04 AM HENRY SHONERD <hshonerd@gmail.com <mailto:hshonerd@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Ulvi,
> I know this version. I am pretty sure I first heard a different version long ago. 
> I realize that I mistranslated the “La Era Está Pariendo Un Corazón”. 
> It should be “An era is giving birth to a heart” But then, “No puede más, se muere de dolor”, must mean that the era itself is experiencing the pain as it gives birth to the heart. 
> Henry
> 
> 
>> On Apr 25, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Ulvi İçil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com <mailto:ulvi.icil@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/qTJzYtd1l7M__;!!Mih3wA!TMsTYBOglSLvWI4GpFSQfkVB9bQ2s5OoV_9pHiDkWrizHd9H2AheS8_iopyTfgUxUbtgxw$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://youtu.be/qTJzYtd1l7M__;!!Mih3wA!WIW89lahdAHo8g-kQ9_bgc1f2np__40pidl0CNpTdFrwPXIc8x5ToKRE3EX78uxZGs14Hw$> 
>> 
>> I think best interpretation of this song. 
>> 
>> Ulvi
> 

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