Charly Garcia is teaching me spanish

Have you ever awed at the statements, "the Beatles taught me English," or thought it pretty damn cool that music in English is responsible for a global spread of the language since the proliferation and liberation that trends in music brought about from the 60s on words? Revolutions around the world have always, or at least often, incorporated artistic creation as a means to fuel the diluted souls of the oppressed. From Eastern Europe, to Brazil, to Cuba, language in melody, in harmony with ideas, has taught and educated. I would venture to guess that nearly every person I have encountered from another country has at some point expressed to me, if the topic of language comes up (which is rare that it does not, for obvious reasons), that music or movies in some way has improved their English. Take notes people. For the last two weeks or so, whenever I play music, whenever I retreat into my perceptual escape of the pod; my pod, the ipod. I refrain from those comforting tunes that remind me of home, or those exotic beats of cumbia or Brazilian jazz or prog rock, or samba or forro, and I unleash the frazzled furry of Charlie Garcy.

So do like everyone else does, and put a little creative pazang into your Spanish studies, find activities that you like, that you can do in Spanish. Listen to Argentinian music; whatever you like, rock, tango, folk, cumbia. Charlie Garcy is a classic Argentinian rock musician, classic. Like standard, he and another musician, Luis Alberto Spinetta are primarily responsible for the beginning of Argentine rock. Garcy is crazy. His first band Sui Generis began in the early 70s as a folk rock, psych rock band. In the mid 70s the band broke and he began a second band that never received the same popularity. Later he escaped to Brazil do to the administration of the of the time. In Brazil he lived the life of a Hunter/Gatherer with his Brazilian lover. In 1979 he returned to Buenos Aires and began the project Seru Giran which he eventually spent small jail time for lyrical content. And now, no more on Charly Garcia, but rather find his music and be charmed, and learn Spanish. Funny how some things of an English nature tend to breed global similarities, that's globalization for you, and while there are many negative elements to that, including the cultural destruction that comes with a homogenized global English, there are ways we can learn from putting our own language out there. Not only will you find some fabulous art, but you will start to understand that language that has been the cause of many awkward nights and small-talk catastrophes.