This playlist challenges the colonial mindset and the mainstream view of what western culture understands as territories, identities, or ways of seeing the other through the music.
About this playlist
“But it often rhymes...” is a playlist curated by Laureana Toledo, a Mexican artist who works trying to create other ways of doing, with particular interest in punk music as an alternative way of reading the world. The playlist title comes from a quote by Mark Twain that says “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes...”emphasizing the need to continue creating modes of resistance in the present. During 3 years Laureana was visiting the Rock and Roll Public Library in London, a collection of Mick Jones of The Clash, researching and creating relationships between books, films and records that tells how the idea of “otherness” has been represented in Western history. Who are the Indians? Who owns what territory? What is the wild? Who are the savages? Who are we? Laureana shares with us this sound archive that starts with Martin Luther King's speech, passing through anarchist songs, fight hymns, songs of the Cuban revolution, danzones or Tex-Mex songs. This playlist challenges the mainstream view of what western culture understands as territories, identities, or ways of seeing the other through the music.
Museo Jumex (CDMX)
About Laureana's Toledo solo show «Pero a veces rima» at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City.
