Drums and Dreams of Liberation: Latin American Music as Text. University of New Mexico. UHON 301-003

Latin America is not a unified and uniformed region. It is a diverse and complex idea formed by different geographical areas, cosmologies, and ethnicities. Keeping in mind this diversity, this course will use music and lyrics as primary sources of analysis to understand Latin American cultures and regions. We will give attention to some musical movements connected to political changes in the search for their dreams of liberation, such as the examples of 20th centurys Mexico, Chile, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela. We will study the role of music as element of change in revolutionary movements, in the new song and protest music of the 1960s and 70s, and in current examples of urban Rock in Español and educational inititiaves such as Tocar y Luchar (To Play and To Struggle). These topics will be studied using a blended-learning method of class on campus and a virtual classroom. From Buenos Aires, Argentinian Conductor Javier Lorenzo will work with students participation in on-line exercises and Skype communication. In the same way that music is a common language for human race; thanks to technology this course will explore that common world language within a real international dimension, with teaching taking place in and from two different hemispheres.

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• UHON 301-003
• University of New Mexico