For a sense of what the cuatro community is all about, please visit the Puerto Rican Cuatro Project’s website at: http://www.cuatro-pr.org/. Co-founders Juan Sotomayor, William Cumpiano and their crew have gathered an incredible repository of information on the subject of the cuatro.
In the course of beginning our collection of Roots Music Oral Histories, we set out to begin asking questions and analyzing social implications of modern practices of roots music traditions, including the impact of place, gender, and race. These can be tough questions, but they are important as roots music traditions continue to evolve in generations to come.