By Samiri Hernández Hiraldo
Loiza is a Puerto Rican city recognized for top representing the African traditions, a group of a generally black inhabitants stricken by profound racial discrimination and poverty. yet many Loiza citizens strongly establish themselves in spiritual phrases, strategically dealing with their person, familial, gender, generational, neighborhood, nationwide, and racial identities via a religious prism that successfully is helping them deal with and remodel their tough reality.
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Was recited in the “African” or “black” type of pronunciation. The idea behind the question is that the African component is somewhere in your family roots. ” We learned popular African words such as mondongo (a stew with pork parts) and mofongo (a plantain dish). On the one hand, during my elementary and middle school years (1980– 83) there was an emphasis on the jíbaro figure in various activities held at my school and through my family’s strong involvement in the pro-commonwealth party or PPD, especially my father’s side.
Watching the performance at the university made me realize that, while I was growing up, my life had moved through two interacting but different worlds that were more or less related to the three components of the Puerto Rican national identity: the jíbaro archetype and the North American element. My father’s family was “white” and resided in Barrazas, a mostly “white” barrio where I was born and raised. The family was Northern Baptist. This characteristic and the family’s strong church leadership role brought family members into association with important Baptist officials, from the island and mainland, and moved them toward identification with North American culture.
As Soto Torres (2000) recently pointed out, bomba is the rhythm that Puerto Ricans most often deny. To my interviewees this statement applies more to the Loízan style of bomba. However, as the professional percussionist Waldemar Reyes argues (interviewed September 3, 2003), bomba, mixed with other rhythms such as jazz, is gaining popularity in the secular sphere thanks to people such as William Cepeda, a popular musician, composer, and arranger originally from Loíza. Cepeda is internationally known for his compositions that mix jazz with bomba and plena and for his award-winning CD entitled Afro-Rican Jazz: My Roots and Beyond.
