The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else
if not here...in English.
---Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Cuban-American writer
My subject:
how to explain to you that I don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else
if not here...in English.
---Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Cuban-American writer
Band of Migrant Musicians Combats Stereotypes with Music
Originally broadcast on BBC/Public Radio International's The World
Copyright: Wiener Tschuschenkapelle
Former Yugoslavs first started arriving to Austria in the 1960s and 1970s as gastarbeiters or guest workers. Wars of the 1990s brought new waves, this time of refugees. Austria's capital Vienna has had a conflicted relationship with its large population of these migrants. One band, however, has tackled the city's ambivalence with humour. Since its founding in the 1980s, Wiener Tschuschenkapelle has fought some common stereotypes these migrants face with a language that the city of Vienna - often called MusicStadt Wien or Vienna, City of Music - understands well: the beats.
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