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Leader in Son Jarocho Revival Tells His Music's Story

Gilberto Gutierrez, a Son Jarocho singer-poet and master of the stringed jarana, explained how this once-popular music of southern Veracruz has not only come back, but begun to spread.
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Center for Mexican Studies

The UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, created in 2008, grew out of the former Program on Mexico, which was established in 1982 to organize, coordinate, and encourage graduate student and faculty research on Mexico, faculty and student exchanges with Mexican universities, and Mexico-related events at UCLA.

Since its inception, the Program-now the Center-has focused on collaborative and bilateral research issues that directly affect Mexican society and economy, relations between the U.S. and Mexico, including issues related to migration, and Mexico's place in global affairs.

Through its research and outreach activities, the Center has developed inter-institutional and bilateral research networks to link researchers and research efforts at U.S. and Mexican universities.