The University of California, Riverside Music Graduate Student Association proudly announces their first conference on Latin American Music and Performance, February 17-18, 2018.
Talks will be given by graduate students in disciplines such as, but not limited to the following: ethnomusicology, musicology, music education, and dance. Talks will focus on the musics and/or music performances of Latin America and its diasporas, and will be presented in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, PhD, a scholar-creative artist and Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will be giving a keynote speech titled, “Performing Palimpsests in Mexico: Constructing & destabilizing trans-temporal imagined communities through music, dance, and theatre.”
All participants are invited to an open mic/music jam on Saturday evening.
Click here full conference schedule.