The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 2, 1990 - Page 7
Sotavento
plays
music
of
all
the
Americas
by Mark Webster
IT'S the '90s, the decade of inter-
national recognition. Nelson Man-
dela walks as a free statesman, the
Russian republics declare their au-
tonomy, and Ortega graciously
yields to Chamorro (a newspaper
person at that!). The time has come
for the music of Sotavento.
Sotavento is a six-member, Pan-
American combo that plays more
than 25 wind, string and percussion
instruments from Latin, American
and mestizo cultures. They fuse their
music with traditional and contem-
porary styles, then give it the spirit
of passionate movement.
Based now at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Center for
Latin America, the group's members
are all from the Americas, though
not all-American. Lead singer Laura
Brown was born in Santiago, Chile.
Chichi Perez, who plays reeds and
flutes, was born in Chicago but
raised in Lima, Peru. Founding
member and guitarist Francisco
Lopez comes from Mexico City.
Anne Fraioli, who plays flute,
quena, siku and sings as well, is an
ethnomusicologist from Glens Falls,
N.Y. Guitarist Jaime Guiscafre was
born in San Salvador and raised in
Lima. And percussionist Orlando
Cabrera was born in Bayamon,
Puerto Rico.
Cabera said the group uses its
music to make political statements.
"...We are all part of this continent.
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Only Begotten
Daughter
by James Morrow
William Morrow/$19.95
The problem with trying to take
Science Fiction seriously is that
people tend to look at the term
"Science Fiction," think, "Sci-Fi",
equate the whole thing with many-
tentacled monsters in flying saucers
from the planet Alpha-X, and ignore
it all as low-class crap. For many
years there was nothing wrong with
this, since the perception wasn't too
far from the truth; in fact much of
Science Fiction today is still less
literature and more robots in outer
space and neat gadgets of the future.
The problem only shows up once
you start looking at stories that are
better than that, and deserve to be
thought of as literature that just so
happens to not be ordinary enough
to be "mainstream" fiction. Case in
point, this book by James Morrow.
This book is one of the better ar-
guments for the use of the expres-
sions "Speculative Fiction" or "SF"
for the whole Science Fic-
tion/Fantasy/Horror field, because
while it does definitely belong in
one of these categories, it's not ex-
actly clear which one it should go
into. The story's basic idea is this:
immaculate conceptions may have
been believable a couple of hundred
years ago, but how would God :end
a child to earth these days? The an-
swer is simple: a little contamina-
tion in a sperm donor's contribution,
an ovum from nowhere, and lo! a
child is born. A daughter, just to be
different.
The novel is about Julie,
daughter of God, her attempts to
contact God her mother, how she
handles having divine powers, and
how her family and friends react to
all this. There are also plots about
the devil on Earth and a radical
Christian organization that takes
over New Jersey, that help it all
blend together to get to the main
point: what is God and why do we
always think of him as an old robed
guy with a white beard?
There are only so many ways you
can approach a question like this. In
the best satirical tradition, Morrow
makes fun of it all. Since putting a
lot of science in SF helps make a
writer's version of the future believ-
able, by leaving out the science and
making it humorous Morrow avoids
the whole believability problem,
turning it into a "what if" exercise
and seeing what happens to the char-
acters. And what happens to the
characters works well as the core of
the novel. These are interesting peo-
ple, and the surprising thing is that
they're not even that stereotypically
drawn. By the end of the novel it's
perfectly possible to care about what
happens to them, even if you don't
want to believe in the future, the
God, or the devil that Morrow writes
up.
Of course, the book's not perfect.
Morrow tends to get a bit too cutesy
with some of the humor, and our
hero Julie's obnoxiousness at the
beginning of her ministry is a little
too annoying, but all of this is over-
come by the characters and the
unusual, imaginative events they
experience. In the end, this book that
deserves to stand on its own and be
read simply because it is a good
book, not because it's Science Fic-
tion or not.
-Antonio Roque
ANDERSON
Continued from page 5
inside the private world of our
thoughts. Laurie Anderson provides
an audible voice for those everyday,
ingenious, perhaps even thought-
provoking thoughts; and not only
that, but she gives us a voice with
which we can agree.
LAURIE ANDERSON will be per-
forming Saturday, March 10, at the
Michigan Theater. The perfor-
mance starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are
$22.50.
E:
Sotavento is a musical group that officially comes from Milwaukee but is truly of the western hemisphere.
They have a lot of instruments, some of which are visible here.
In a sense that's a political message.
With instruments, by presenting the
music it's a presentation of a point
of view," she said.
The group has played with folk
singer, political activist and former
member of The Weavers Ronnie
Gilbert, and at places like New
York's Lincoln Center Annual Folk
Heritage Festival and the Viva
Chicago festival. In 1985 Sotavento
performed in Ann Arbor as part of
the Central American Week celebra-
tion.
"We don't play for a cause that
we don't believe in," Cabrera said.
"Also, we follow in the tradition of
musical movement. We are playing
instruments and music not always
indigenous to our own country, but
we do that as a gesture of solidarity
and friendship."
Audiences say that the whole
combination is entertaining: the mu-
sic, the many instruments, and the
movement on stage.
"Sometimes because we play
from traditional sources people ex-
pect to see a traditional band in ap-
pearance. But because we come from
different places and are not homoge-
nous, we don't wear costumes. We
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Traveling with so many instru-
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