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Course: Travel, culture and local lifeSection: Barranquilla's sound system cultureSubtitles: en

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[Music]

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Everyone in Barranquilla who has danced

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knows that the public

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at the sound system allows us to bring all kinds of

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music to the people of Barranquilla,

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playing the most popular music, making it

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simple.

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[Music]

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My name is Junior, I

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'm a guest of Antonio Gallo Serrano,

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owner of the Korean bar, and I'm an

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electronics technician specializing in sound systems. I've been working on sound systems for

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40 years,

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supporting the culture. I saw Cotterill, and a sound system

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is a large sound system that

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brings

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joy to a dancing audience through a person who plays music.

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The system consists of its

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power amplifiers that give sound to the entire

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building, perhaps between the booths.

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The sound we hear would

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cost around 30,000.

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We started with just two people, with the 22 for

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half.

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[Music]

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The sound system emerged, they started making

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small additions, and they began to

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take it from party to party in cars. Because the

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sound system is already

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too small, we're going to make it bigger,

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so the biggest one, and in that sense, we'll

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attend to Asier, where

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psychedelia is very historically significant

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because It is explained that if we are going to play

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upbeat music, we can display it in black

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and white because it

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would match what we are

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playing. The drawings differentiate the

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teams,

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so I think that in this case, the

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drawings are what give life to the team.

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[Music] is

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a family tradition that has been carried

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on year after year for about 38 years.

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We believe we have a

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cultural responsibility to continue maintaining this. It is what

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we like most: listening to good

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music.

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And regarding the vice president, I am proud to continue

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with him.

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