Deborah Pacini-Hernandez
Anthropology
Tufts

Locating Latin, Latinos, and Latin Americans in the U.S. Popular Music Landscape

Pacini-Hernandez specializes in Comparative Latino Studies, racial & ethnic identity, popular music, and Latino community studies. She is the author of Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music (1995), and co-editor of Rockin’ Las Americas: Rock Music Cultures Across Latin/o America (2004).

Raul Fernandez
Sociology
UC Irvine

Curatorial Issues in Latin Music

Raul Fernandez specializes in economic and cultural transactions between the U.S. and Latin America. He is the author of several books, including two on music: Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination (2002), and the forthcoming From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz. He is also curator of the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit Latin Jazz: La Combinación Perfecta, which opened in Washington, D.C. in 2002 and will travel to twelve U.S. cities through 2006.

Daniel Sheehy, an ethnomusicologist who has written extensively about Mexican and Mexican American music, is the director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in Washington D.C.

5:00 p.m.
Communications 226

Borders, Bullets, and Boleros:
Excavating the Life and Music
of Chelo Silva

Vargas specializes in Chicana/Latina cultural production. Her most recent project is a book manuscript titled Las Tracaleras: Tejanas/Mexicanas, Music, and the Remapping of Greater Mexico.

Americentric Markets in a
Capitalistic Music Industry:
Problems in the Study of Latino Music in the U.S.

Loza specializes in the music of Latin America and Chicano/Mexican music in Los Angeles. He is the author of Barrio Rhythm (1993), an ethnography of Chicano music in Los Angeles, and Tito Puente and the Making of Latin America (1999).

4:00 p.m.
Communications 202

Marisol Berríos-Miranda
Independent Scholar

Berríos-Miranda writes about salsa and pan-Latino identity, and is the author of “Salsa as a Musical Genre,” from Situating Salsa (2002). She is also a vocalist and percussionist.