The B-Side: How Do You Say "Country Pop" in Spanish?

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The B-Side: How Do You Say "Country Pop" in Spanish?

The fifth episode of 14 East's podcast about digging into past stories.

14 East magazine

Mar 15, 2022

Recorded and produced by Richie Requena

This week’s episode of The B-Side is a story from Pueblo co-founder and former Creative Editor Julián Martinez. “How Do You Say ‘Country Pop’ in Spanish” (read the essay in Spanish here) is a narrative essay on Martinez’s family and their assimilation into a new country through musical compromise.

Martinez shares his childhood influences on country music and what they mean to him now. He writes, “Country music scenes are notoriously, historically white. Country music, a withstanding stereotype of whiteness, is so deeply indebted to, among others, Mexican culture.”

This episode of ‘The B-Side’ was featured in 14 East’s weekly newsletter, In The Loop, on March 14. Read the full newsletter here. Cover art for the podcast is by Bridget Killian.

Miss our last episode? Check it out below:

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The original header image for the story, from Shania Twain and Mercury Records.

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The B-Side

A weekly podcast from the 14 East newsroom revisiting powerful, insightful and original stories from our archives that we've reported and how we've reported them, with commentary from the writers.

Illustration by Bridget Killian, 14 East.

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