Title of piece: “En estos días” (In These Times)
Date of composition: 1978
Date of performance/recording: Mujeres. Ojalá CD 0003. Havana, Ojalá Records.
Composer/Lyricist: Silvio Rodríguez
Performer/Instruments: Guitar, voice
Form: strophic
Tempo: moderate 4/4

What to Listen for:

  • The style of the music, while influenced by the bolero, is international and not specific to Cuba, reflecting Rodríguez’s tastes
  • Early sections of the lyrics appear to discuss romance, but later sections make political references
  • The lines “how many stay” and “how many go” allude to the exile of tens of thousands of Cubans in the 1960s and 1970s
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