Cultures of Resistance

As the inventor of the escopetarra—rifles transformed into guitars—Cesar Lopez breathes life into instruments of death. In response to the violence that has plagued his home in Bogota, Colombia, Lopez has discovered a way to channel this violence into "art, where creation triumphs over destruction." He has received wide acclaim for this, as well as his involvement with The Battalion of Immediate Artistic Action—a kind of emergency first-response unit of musicians and activists who take to the streets every time there is some kind of guerilla attack in Bogota to assuage the victims of political violence with soothing music.

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