Replaying Marc Anthony: Listening, cultural resonances, and the power of songs
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The Center for Latin American Studies is partnering with the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry this fall to host the Charlas con Café Speaker Series – a weekly space to hear lectures from a wide variety of experts and discuss topics relevant to the Latin American region, Fridays from 1-2 pm (unless otherwise specified).
In Replaying Marc Anthony: Sonic, Political, and Cultural Resonances, Dr. Frances Aparicio invites readers to relisten and reinterpret five of Marc Anthony’s most iconic songs through the lens of cultural studies. Through critical listening as a method, Dr. Aparicio traces the circulation of these songs and the ways in which they resonate socially and culturally with his fans and listeners, situating them within longer sonic genealogies in the Americas and beyond. Frances R. Aparicio was Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University. She has previously taught at Stanford University, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, and University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests include Latina and Latino literary and cultural studies, the cultural politics of U.S. Latino/a languages, Latino/a popular music and dance, literary and cultural translation, cultural hybridity, transnationalism, Latinidad, and mixed Latino/a identities. She is author of the award-winning Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music and Puerto Rican Cultures (Wesleyan 1998), Negotiating Latinidad (2013) and co-editor of various critical anthologies, including Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad (University of New England Press, 1997), Musical Migrations (Palgrave, 2003), Hibridismos culturales (Revista Iberoamericana, 2006) and The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. A founding editor of the Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest Book Series at the University of Illinois Press, she has facilitated and fostered book publications and new research on Latino/as in the Midwest. She also served as past President of the Latino Studies Association.
This is a virtual event. Please register here: https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/7_s4zfHQR3O8oSG0L2fnVw