Angel Quintero Rivera - "World Visions of Diversity" (March 5)

The Spring 2012 Ethnomusicology Colloquium presents:
World Visions of Diversity Within Musical Afro Aesthetical Practices in Caribbean
Latin America

Angel Quintero Rivera

Monday, March, 5, 2012 4:00pm
Center for Ethnomusicology
Dodge Hall 701 C
Department of Music
Columbia University
Free and open to the public

This presentation analyzes the cultural and socio-historical significance of diverse de- centered aesthetical elaboration practices within the musical tradition of Afro Latin America. It tries to establish continuities within the transformations experienced in these aesthetical practices from ancient traditional genres to contemporary forms of expression.