Article: Despite dictatorship and embargo, a new music scene is coming out of Cuba. (Originated from Orange County Register)

Anyone who thinks communism stifles creativity hasn't been listening to Radio Havana recently. 
Cuba may be suffering shortages of food, gasoline, even cigars. But the island is brimming with one life-sustaining essential: music. 
Powerful, progressive, passionate music that is setting the pace in the Afro-Caribbean style popularly called salsa. 
Unlike music scenes elsewhere, this one is distinctly black market. It's sometimes composed in the dark on acoustic guitar during frequent blackouts and it's frequently debuted live before a product-hungry public that relies on concerts to hear the latest ``releases,'' yet to be recorded or unavailable in poorly stocked ...

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