🖊🗞 COLUMN | Luis Mariano Rivera and the Battle for Cultural Sovereignty
VA columnists Fabiola José and Fidel Barbarito argue that Luis Mariano Rivera’s music was an act of cultural re-existence: by singing about his village, rural labor, nature and community life, he challenged the marginalization of the countryside and preserved forms of collective memory.
For the authors, Rivera’s legacy shows that cultural sovereignty is inseparable from the ability of communities to preserve their own histories, knowledge and ways of life.
“True universality does not consist in erasing differences under a single mold,” they write, “but rather in reaching our very roots.”
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VA columnists Fabiola José and Fidel Barbarito pay tribute to Luis Mariano Rivera and his legacy in upholding Venezuela's cultural heritage.
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