Putting The "America" in Central American Culture

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The oddest part for me about the Resort was the music played in the square.  There, of course was music piped everywhere, but the plaza nightly music was one thing- Caribbean-sounding covers of American hits.

Okay, I didn't expect much, but I at least expected music from a cross-over artist.  Marc Anthony? Jon Secada? Gloria Estefan? Ricky Martin? Esquivel? Os Mutantes? Tino?  C'mon, something. 

No, it was a heavy diet of Rolling Stones, U2, and Pink Floyd songs done in lounge exotica style.

There of course, in the restaurants, the expected muzak diet of "Dust in the Wind" or "Piano Man" or whatever.

Also, I expect the house band to be heavy on the Eagles and Skynyrd (and sure enough, it was).

Still, for the music on the thoroughfare- the soundtrack to buying Mexican wrestling masks and bootleg Harley Davidson t-shirts- I was hoping for something slightly more authenic.

Now, granted, maybe that is what American tourists want.  Maybe they want their foreign experience to be as much like their everyday world with only the slightest change that they can stand.

Still, after listening to a chanteuse croon "Comfortably Numb" and "Miss Sarajevo" on MP3, it sorta wasn't what I wanted.