In fact, some of the popular Cuban songs were given Hindi lyrics and featured in Hindi films. There was also an entirely different culture of music in Cuba, popular outside the capital city of Havana. While the new government did not ban traditional music, they put heavy emphasis on new, revolutionary, and modern forms of culture. Traditional music was seen as “not aligned” with the new, revolutionary image of Cuba and was officially sidelined. Cuban music had finally reemerged, and a music essentially silenced for decades got its much-needed revival.