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Southern America. Custom CD Digital Download 9. Play Album. Become a Friend of Folkways and stream the collection. Year s Released Artist s Pepe y Flora. Country s Puerto Rico, United States. Instrument s Acoustic guitar, Chorus, Drums, Lead vocals. Language s Spanish. Recording Era s s. All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center.

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The city took notice, and garbage collection improved. The Young Lords declared the mission a success — they proved to the neighborhood they could get shit done. The song is a plena, a Puerto Rican folk genre based around call-and-response.

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What a beautiful flag my Puerto Rican flag is. But for Puerto Ricans, the flag is more than just a flag. The narrative is changed. For the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican flag was a rallying cry. Johanna Fernandez, author of a forthcoming book on the Young Lords. Ramito appears to have registered the song as his composition inbut most Puerto Ricans I spoke to believed the song to be quite a bit older.

In the December ofthe Lords showed up to the First Spanish Methodist Church in East Harlem and asked the reverend, a conservative Cuban exile, for permission to use the church space to deliver social services to the neighborhood. Somebody called the police, who beat up and arrested 13 of the Young Lords. They sought a connection to their cultural heritage; to claim their historical presence in the United States; to resist their marginalization; and to mobilize solidarity across class, ethnic, racial, and national differences.

Music provided a powerful means for expressing their aspiration to reshape a society reeling from a prolonged war, ongoing struggles against racial inequity, and revelations of the Watergate cover-up. A Grain of Sand was produced by Paredon Records.

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Over the course of 15 years, Paredon founders Irwin Silber and Barbara Dane amassed a catalog of 50 titles reflecting their commitment to the music of peace and social justice movements. Into ensure its ongoing accessibility, Silber and Dane donated the Paredon catalog to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, through which these recordings and their original liner notes remain available to the public.

THE MUSIC While the message of the album was by no means mainstream, the music through which Chris, Nobuko, and Charlie expressed their political and social convictions was reflective of the popular genres of the period. The 12 songs on A Grain of Sand were shaped by the American folk music revival, blues, soul, and jazz. Intending to take their music on the road, they kept their instrumentation simple—two guitars and three voices.

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For the album and in some performances, they were backed by conga and bass, and other instruments such as the di zia Chinese transverse flute that Charlie played. A Grain of Sand was mostly compiled over a two-day period from first or second takes. There was nothing else like it. The power of their lyrics was aimed at people like me. And they were GOOD.

Nobuko could actually sing. Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto b. From there the family moved to Idaho and then to Utah before they were allowed to return to Los Angeles after the war. Despite this instability, Nobuko was encouraged by both parents in her study of music and dance. She had also discovered the limitations of being an Asian in the mainstream entertainment industry.

Through this project, she met Yuri Kochiyama, a Harlem community activist and friend of the late Malcolm X, who subsequently introduced Nobuko to civil rights organizing in the local Asian and African American communities. Chris Kando Iijima — Their example and consciousness significantly contributed to A Grain of Sand. His mother—inspired by the educational and cultural activities integral to the Black Power movement—co-founded the organization Asian Americans for Action Triple A in to instill the same kind of pride in local Asian American youth.

Chris attended the High School of Music and Art in Harlem, where he studied French horn, though he also played guitar. Chris and Nobuko met in Triple A; and they wrote their first song and performed together in at a conference of the Japanese American Citizens League, where they joined other young people in urging the organization to oppose the war in Vietnam.

The electricity of that moment, the realization that, until then, we had never heard songs about us, set the course of my journey. A year later they met Charlie Chin.