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Music Across Borders: Bridging Latinx Communities in DU and Denver

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Faculty Affiliate

  • Veronica Pacheco, IRISE Postdoctoral Fellow 

 

About

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. Anchored on the son Jarocho tradition that Mr. Ramón Gutiérrez Hernández embodies, DU students, faculty, and members of the Latinx communities in DU and Denver bridged ideas of social equity with conflicting colonial histories of the Americas while sharing spaces of music-making. The MAC project, therefore, provided a first-hand music experience and cultural exchange between DU and Su Teatro and connected the geographies of Mexico and the US. 

 

Community Partner: Su Teatro, Denver 

 

Project Web Page, IRISE: https://operations.du.edu/irise/our-grantees/musicacrossborders