“The more I learned about West Side Story, the more it lost its luster.”
West Side Story first opened as a musical in 1957. La musical West Side Story se estrenó en 1957.
I was the child of Cuban and Colombian immigrants, living in a neighborhood that was Puerto Rican and Polish. Zimne Piwo was advertised on every corner. I knew the blond-haired metalheads that sometimes scrapped with my Puerto Rican and Latinx friends who were maybe, or maybe not, rolling with the Latin Kings. The tensions inWhat also felt compelling was the independent spirit of some of the women characters.
musical was written by white men, not Puerto Ricans. My pre-teen self knew they were not the keepers of the Latino experience.By the time I became an adult, I could see all of the problems with it. As a child, I had been too young to detect that in a musical about Puerto Ricans, the non-Puerto Rican composers were inaccurately using mariachi rhythms from Mexico, flamenco from Spain, and mambo from Cuba.
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