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Afro-Cuban Folklore and Revolution. Reflections on the career of Pedro Izquierdo

Robin Moore, University of Texas at Austin.

Monday, November 19, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall 1402
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Robin Moore is the author of Music and Revolution.  Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2006) and Nationalizing Blackness:  afrocubanismo and artistic revolution in Havana, 1920-1940 (Pittsburgh:  The University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997) which won the Gustave O. Arlt Award. He has studied African-derived music in Colombia, Brazil and Cuba and directs a Caribbean and a Mariachi ensemble. He is Associate Professor, School of Music, University of Texas at Austin.

This event is part of the Latin American Institute's Cuba-Caribbean Working Group.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact

Diliana Peregrina
Tel: (310) 825-4571
dperegri@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/lac/

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute