WELCOME
9 a.m.
4Pepa Anastasio, Hofstra University, Symposium Director HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES PROGRAM and the
9:30-11 a.m.
LGBT Studies Program present a symposium
Cuban Popular Music and Its Diaspora Thursday, November 5, 2015 Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
TRANSITIONAL VOICES AND BODIES
4Naomi Pueo Wood, Colorado College “Las Krudas: Queer Hip Hop in the Diaspora” 4Susan Thomas, The University of Georgia, Athens “Millennial Voices: Listening to Cuba’s Transition in Performance” 4Sarah Town, Princeton University “Timbeando en Nueva York: The Roots and Resonances of a Music/Dance Form” 4Alejandro Avilés, Hofstra University Respondent 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
HAVANA SOUNDSCAPE
4DJ Session and Conversation: “The Funk Connection in Cuban Popular Music” Documentary Screening: Quest for Cuba 4DJ Edgaro, Productor en Jefe 4Eva Silot Bravo, University of Miami 12:30-2 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1-1:45 p.m.
GLOBAL RHYTHMS: WORKSHOP Main Dining Room, Mack Student Center, North Campus World music ensemble Global Rhythms brings the rhythms of Cuba to Hofstra University.
2-3:15 p.m.
DOCUMENTING THE MUSIC SCENE
Film Viewing: ANIMALS OF CUBAN MUSIC (Jen Paz, 2012; 70 mins) takes us inside a thriving music scene in Cuba to explore tensions between defenders of reggaeton and Cuban salsa who share their thoughts between live performances. Featuring: Gente de Zona, Charanga Habanera, Baby Lores, El Chacal, Bamboleo, Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco, Yulien Oviedo, Insurrecto, El Micha Cameos and interviews: Los Van Van, Mayito Rivera, Roberton, Los Intocables, Mandy Cantero, RDR, Team Cuba, Paulito FG, Jose Luis Cortes
3:15-3:30 p.m. 3:30-4:30 p.m. As the governments of the United States and Cuba work together to restore diplomatic and economic relations, this symposium explores the kind of musical and cultural relations that happen alongside, behind, and in spite of politics. Looking beyond the traditional repertoire best exemplified by the much-praised film Buena Vista Social Club, the symposium convenes scholars, journalists, DJs and performers to discuss popular genres such as rumba, salsa, reggaeton, hip-hop and timba, both on the island and abroad. The sessions examine music in the context of changes in Cuba and transnational movements in the Caribbean and the United States, as well as on the international scene.
Coffee Break TRANSNATIONAL FLOW
4Johnny Frias, The Graduate Center, CUNY “Havana’s Musicians in Miami: Promoting a Transnational Cubanidad in Cuba’s Timba and Reggaetón” 4Yesenia Selier, New York University “Ven, ven, ven pa’ que tu veas cómo está el tren! Cuban Dancing Bodies Transnational Circulation” 4Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos, The Graduate Center, CUNY Respondent 4:30 p.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ALTERNATIVE MUSIC IN HAVANA TODAY 4Dr. Joaquín Borges-Triana, Havana, Cuba Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Symposium Scholar Dr. Joaquín Borges-Triana is a music critic for several publications in Cuba, and author of several books on Cuban popular music. He is also editor at the art magazine El Caimán Barbudo; since 1988 he writes a weekly column as a music critic for the journal Juventud Rebelde. He is the author of Músicos de Cuba y del mundo: Nadie se va del todo (2012) and Concierto cubano: La vida es un divino guión (2009). More recently, he has been a contributor to My Havana: The Musical City of Carlos Varela, University of Toronto Press, 2014, and editor for Cuba Counterpoints’ dossier on the role of intellectuals in a changing Cuba. 4Dr. Susan Thomas, University of Georgia, Athens Respondent
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Dr. Susan Thomas is associate professor of musicology and women’s studies at the University of Georgia, as well as a specialist in Cuban music and music and gender studies. 6 p.m.
Reception
7-8:30 p.m.
GLOBAL RHYTHMS: PERFORMANCE
Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center, North Campus Global Rhythms is a cultural enterprise devoted to enriching society and empowering individuals and communities through Cuban dance, music and cultural education.
Admission is FREE and open to the public. om rcanningphoto.c Photo credit: hunte
Presented in collaboration with the Hofstra Department of Drama and Dance, Hofstra University Library, and Vista Higher Learning
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at the Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus. For more information and to RSVP, please visit hofstra.edu/culture or contact the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669. 63625:10/15