Veronica Pacheco
IRISE Postdoctoral Fellow
What I do
Veronica Pacheco is an ethnomusicologist specializing in ritual music of the Indigenous peoples of Mexico and other musical genres of Latin America and the Middle East. She received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include music and the politics of participation, collective performances of music as registers of Indigenous history, and the intersections of Indigenous sustainability and cultural rights. She directs two research initiatives in Mexico, “The Nahua Religious Music Project” and “The Urban Soundscapes Project.” At DU, Veronica will be working on the Spirituals Project at the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies.
Performances
The Music Across Borders project (MAB) hosted Mr. Ramón Gutiérrez Hernández, a prominent son Jarocho musician from southern Veracruz, Mexico, as an initiative to connect DU students with the organization Su Teatro: Cultural and Performing Arts Center, while providing an enriching learning experience inside and outside the classroom. With the support of the DU Center for Immigration, Policy, and Research (CIPR), the DU Latinx Center, the Lamont School of Music, and IRISE, between April 7th to the 15th of 2022, students, faculty, and members of the Latinx community participated in class presentations, music workshops and jamming sessions, and a fandango at DU and Su Teatro. Additionally, and in the context of the MAB project, Mr. “Jose” Jozer Guerrero, Prof. M. Roger Holland, II, and Mrs. Dianne Briscoe McKenzie joined Mr. Gutiérrez in a panel to talk about their engagement with music and community-based projects.
- University of Denver and Su Teatro, Denver, CO
Presentations
Sonic Resistance: Indigenous Women and Social Justice
This panel examines the intersection of sound (music, dance, and performance) and social justice in Indigenous communities in North America. In collaboration with DU’s The Spirituals Project, we will consider the way music and sound challenge the spaces of settler society. Established and emerging indigenous scholars will interrogate the intersection of sound and resistance. Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Brenda Child (Ojibwe, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota), Dr. Jacinta Toribio-Torres (Nahua, Research Professor at the Universidad Veracruzana Intercultural), Dr. Veronica Pacheco (IRISE Postdoctoral Fellow at Denver University), and Viki Eagle (Sicangu Lakota & Japanese, doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA). This panel is presented in partnership with The Spirituals Project and is co-hosted by IRISE, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the College of Arts, History and Social Sciences.
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