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Constant Terror Fear Closing Cultural Borders

By AAN Staff
september 22, 2003  09:50 am
Constant Terror Fear Closing Cultural Borders
Even bringing a Spanish flamenco troupe into the United States these days is a monumental hassle, OC Weekly's Jim Washburn learns. The endless War on Terror could starve American artists of the kind of cultural cross-pollination that brought James Brown to Africa's Fela Kuti and the recharged African rhythms back to artists such as Karl Denson (pictured). "Okay, I don’t mind flying without scissors, and I could get to like taking my shoes off at airport checkpoints. ... But it’s a bad, bad thing when we’re also bringing the steel shutters down on our artistic windows to the world."
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