Story by Julián Martinez

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.”

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