Steven Loza: Professor of Ethnomusicology and Global Jazz Studies, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles(UCLA)

Moderator: Yuka Mizutani (Professor, Center for Global Education and Discovery, Sophia Univ., Member of Iberoamerican Institute)

Sala L-921, 9 piso de la biblioteca central, Universidad Sofía

Inglés

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Instituto Iberoamericano, Universidad Sofía
Co-organizador: Institute of American and Canadian Studies, Sophia University

Since I published my book Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music In Los Angeles, I have continued to research the musical cultures of the Chicano/Latinx people in the United States. One of the concepts that I have adapted to my study has been the idea of “transethnicity”, which goes beyond the theories of syncretism and acculturation. Serge Gruzinski has written a book titled The Mestizo Mind, based on Mexican culture, and in the book he speaks of the idea of multiple identities. This is very akin to what happens in Latinx communities in the US. Musicians blend Mexican forms of music with rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, pop, hip hop, and even classical symphonic music, and they compose music in both English and Spanish, sometimes simultaneously. In my presentation I will focus on a number of the important musical episodes that have occurred among this culture, especially in Los Angeles, since the 1940s to the present.