Shotguns and Accordions: Music of the Marijuana Growing Regions of Colombi

[princegoon]

Links to the documentary and write-up in the following article (it's a safe site, no log-in or sign-up required):

Shotguns and Accordions: Music of the Marijuana Growing Regions of Colombia

 

[princegoon]

The paper from the researcher:

https://www.researchgate.net/public...raffic_in_Colombia's_First_Illegal_Drugs_Boom

 

[princegoon]

To be clear here, the site I linked to contains a great video and a separate write-up, both worth your time if you have memories from these days (worth your time even if you weren't alive then though). An excerpt from the paper:

The country's first class of illegal drugs merchants helped shape a key element of modern Colombian nationalism by promoting vallenato music on the local stage and hastening its conquest of the national market and imaginary in the 1970s. Marijuana intermediaries-popularly known as marimberos-sprang into action from the most marginalized rural and urban sectors of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and La Guajira region. Soon they constituted a new entrepreneurial class whose profile as successful merchants was articulated as a regional masculine identity found in popular expressions such as vallenato music. That process helped marimberos to open space for themselves in regional society and to turn vallenato into a supreme expression of Colombian popular culture.

 

[princegoon]

Even back then in Columbia, cannabis empowered the wretches. Cool to see they had the heart and balls to make an enduring culture out of it.