Gewehre zu Gitarren
Einem kolumbianischen Musiker ist aufgefallen, wie sich seine Körperbewegungen und die des Soldaten ähneln, blosz dass der Soldat statt Gitarre ein Gewehr hält. Kurze Zeit später war die erste escopetarra gebohren – ein Kunstwort aus escopeta and guitarra (spanisch Gewehr und Gitarre).
MiamiHerald.com | 03/07/2006 | Making music out of menace
[…] The escopetarra landed in the hands of then Bogotá Mayor Antanas Mockus. Others went to Argentine rocker Fito Páez and to the United Nations. Colombian rocker Juanes recently auctioned off his for charity. López says other requests for the novel instruments have come from Colombian pop star Shakira and Brazilian musicians Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso.
”We’re not trying to sell them or get someone to pay for them. We’re just trying to get the word out,” López told The Miami Herald.
The strategy seems to be working. In January, Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos promised López 12 AK-47 assault rifles, the first three from a 2-year-old peace process between the government and right-wing paramilitaries — known by their acronym AUC — that has led to the demobilization of about 24,000 fighters and the surrender of thousands of weapons. […]
”We don’t only want weapons from the AUC, but from all the groups, including the army,” López said. “We want people to see that all the groups are turning in their weapons.” […]
”We found the worst human invention, which is the gun, and the most beautiful, which could be a guitar,” López said. “And in the end . . . the gun dies and the guitar is born.”
via Neatorama: Turning Gun into Guitar.
