¡Soy Salvadoreño! Chanchona Music from Eastern El Salvador

The low-slung mountains and rural villages of eastern El Salvador are home to one of the most joyous yet little-known regional musics of Latin America. Called chanchona—“big pig,” the local name for the string bass—it is music made by and for country people. When the family group Los Hermanos Lovo fled the civil war of the 1980s and 1990s, they took their homegrown music with them to Washington, D.C. There, the lively sounds of the cumbia are as much an invitation to dance as a way of creating a sense of “home” and cultural solidarity. 14 tracks, 51 minutes, 36-page booklet, bilingual notes.

This album is part of the Smithsonian Folkways Tradiciones/Traditions series of Latino music albums, produced with support by the Smithsonian Latino Center.

Track Listing

101	El carnaval de mi tierra (The Carnival of My Land) Los Hermanos Lovo	03:20
102	La Salvadoreña (The Salvadoran Woman) Los Hermanos Lovo	03:11
103	Amapulapa Los Hermanos Lovo	03:46
104	Así somos nosotros (That's How We Are) Los Hermanos Lovo	03:50
105	El delincuente (The Delinquent) Los Hermanos Lovo	03:28
106	Canto a mi patria (I Sing to My Homeland) Los Hermanos Lovo	04:03
107	Las tres fronteras (The Three Borders) Los Hermanos Lovo	03:37
108	La moneda (The Coin) Los Hermanos Lovo	04:52
109	El carnaval de San Miguel (The San Miguel Carnival) Los Hermanos Lovo	03:01
110	El carbonero (The Charcoal Maker) Los Hermanos Lovo	02:37
111	Aunque me duela perderte (Even Though It Pains Me to Lose You) Los Hermanos Lovo	03:21
112	El mojado (The Wetback) Los Hermanos Lovo	04:30
113	Viajando por América (Traveling through America) Los Hermanos Lovo	04:03
114	La secretaria (The Secretary) Los Hermanos Lovo	03:21