Punk music preserves indigenous culture (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Punk music preserves indigenous culture

>From PRI's The World
11 August, 2010 03:38:00

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The band Hamac Caziim mixes punk music with traditional stories and language
to celebrate the Seri culture.

When the members of Hamac Caziim don their guitars, tassels and face paint,
their aim is about more than just putting on a great show. They're also
trying to preserve the language of the Seri Nation, from the Sonora region
of Northern Mexico. Eduardo Diaz, executive director of the Smithsonian
Latino Center told PRI's The World:

They were actually authorized by the elders of the particular pueblo, of the
community, to go ahead and use rock music as a way to preserve the language
and to get more of the youth involved in the preservation because there was
a fear that the language would disappear.

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