In a carefully curated selection of stories and songs, writer Michael McCaughan teases apart the tangled threads of the Cuban Revolution, from Ed Sullivan to the Hunger Games.
‘One of the finest journalists writing today.’ – Naomi Klein
In a carefully curated selection of stories and songs, writer Michael McCaughan teases apart the tangled threads of the Cuban Revolution, from Ed Sullivan to Agrarian Reform and from Leonard Cohen to the Hunger Games.
From the sean-nós of the talamh beo to the fiestas and ferias of Latin America, music is everywhere, shaping, scoring, and even saving lives. In a unique reflection on the Cuban Revolution, seven stories and seven pieces of music grapple with the complex and notion of a revolution, providing a window into the revolution and a mirror out of which we see our own reflected desires
Michael McCaughan is a writer, researcher, broadcaster and activist; he’s lived and worked in Latin America for almost three decades.
Presented as part of our specially curated #Friction series exploring ways of breaking the boundaries of traditional literary forms.