The Matriarchy Is Love and Tradition, Are the Voices of Bullerengue

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“The essence of bullerengue lies in a peasant environment, in a matriarchal environment within a country that has historically silenced women,” explains Manuel García-Orozco, a doctor in ethnomusicology and music producer, and Yadira la Chamaria de los Manglares, a singer, composer and performer of the drum, the last preserver of tradition in her land. As a child, she inherited the bulllerengue and fishing of her ancestors in La Boquilla, a fish…