Cuban intellectuals express concern on global cultural colonization, in the context of meeting of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba

Havana, Jun 30 (RHC) According to Cuban intellectuals, junk music and songs today invade the sound universe of the world and also of Cuba.

Issues such as cultural colonization and the promotion of bad taste were the focus of the debates at the recent meeting of the National Council of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), held this week at Casa de las Américas.

The attendees shared their criteria regarding the report of the meeting, Culture as a transforming energy in the face of the global colonizing wave, given the reality of the media and cultural hegemony that the centers of power exercise over millions of people.

The alarm has been sounding for several years at each UNEAC meeting with its counterparts from the Cuban Government institutions, especially with regard to the dissemination of low-category products from the world entertainment industry on the radio circuits, the television and social media.

Israel Rojas, singer-songwriter and leader of the Buena Fe group, expressed his concern about the lack of a policy to recover national sovereignty over musical consumption in the island.

The artist criticized the way in which priorities are handled in the Cuban musical environment. There is no order, regulation, or legal instrument that regulates the circulation of music, in the already obvious and undeniable market for Cuban music.

About the scarcity of resources, the artist called to take more advantage of the radio and television system in power of the Cuban Revolution, as well as the companies and institutions dedicated to the promotion of art. He also referred to the need to establish a vigorous digital platform to recover national sovereignty in the consumption of music in Cuba.

Regarding the importance that the digital universe is gaining more and more every day and the value of its knowledge, the participants in the meeting proposed to carry out a cyberliteracy campaign so that the people know and master the technologies within their reach.

In the plenary session, the critic and essayist Víctor Fowler spoke about the preservation of cultural identity, the appropriation of new technologies and the permanent modernization of critical thinking in the fight against this scourge.

For Rogelio Polanco, member of the secretariat of the Cuban Communist Party’s Central Committee, cultural decolonization is a battle of the entire society and the institutional framework, with our intellectuals, artists and creators at the forefront. (Source: PL)