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AQ’s Summer Playlist: Unexpected Collisions
From São Paulo to Havana, surprising musical and cultural combinations mark AQ’s music critic’s warm-weather selection.
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AQ’s Spring Playlist: Hearing Voices
AQ’s music critic highlights the lingering power of the human voice in this roundup of tracks old and new.
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AQ’s Winter Playlist: Flying High, But Solidly Grounded
Our music critic highlights songwriters refashioning high-flown poetic themes—and the low rhythms of the double bass.
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AQ’s Fall Playlist: Globe-Trotting Musical Styles
Our music columnist’s latest round-up features love songs and social commentary from across Latin America.
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A Dispatch from Cuba’s Grammys
AQ’s music critic presents highlights from the Cubadisco awards in Havana.
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AQ’s Spring Playlist: A “Most Unconstitutional” New Album Roundup
This selection of recent releases features desert-inspired guitars from Ecuador, folk wisdom from Chile and tongue-in-cheek Brazilian wordplay.
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AQ’s Winter Playlist: Mellow Music for the Southern Summer
A selection of new Latin American releases, to warm a cold Northern night or dance a Southern summer night away.
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AQ’s Winter Playlist: Two Musicians Turning Tradition Inside Out
A pyrotechnic Brazilian pianist and a transgender Mexican “witch” put daring new twists on established musical convention.
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AQ’s Winter 2021 Playlist
A new collaboration has led to Ecuadorian singer Mariela Condo’s first album in five years.
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AQ’s Fall 2020 Playlist
AQ’s last playlist of 2020 features a group of Brazilian performers who met a difficult year head-on.
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Desde Haití a Chile, un cantante mezcla estilos – y culturas
With Haitian rhythms and Spanish lyrics, Ralph Jean Baptiste shows integration is possible for other migrants.
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AQ’s Spring Playlist
Our musical recommendations for a spring spent indoors, from foot-tapping Brazilian soul to a Guatemalan composer’s experiments with classical sound.
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From Haiti to Chile, a Singer Bridges Styles – and Cultures
With Haitian rhythms and Spanish lyrics, Ralph Jean Baptiste shows integration is possible for other migrants.
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Sinfonía por el Perú: Orchestrating Social Inclusion
A free music program in Peru is effecting change beyond the concert hall.
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AQ’s Spring Playlist: The Enduring Allure of Eydie Gormé y Los Panchos
Our latest Latin America playlist features a look back at an all-time classic.