Symposium: Cuban Popular Music and its Diaspora. November 5th, 2015. Hofstra University. New York.

Excited to be part of this event with great scholars and artists.

I will participate in a conversation about the presence of Funk in Cuban music with New York based #DJEdgaro, apropos of a documentary on the visit of #QuestLove to Cuba.

Program's Event

9 a.m. WELCOME

Pepa Anastasio, Hofstra University, Symposium Director

9:30-11 a.m.: TRANSITIONAL VOICES and BODIES

• Naomi Pueo Wood, Colorado College, "Las Krudas: Queer Hip Hop in the Diaspora"

• Susan Thomas, The University of Georgia, Athens, “Millennial Voices: Listening to Cuba’s Transition in Performance”

• Sarah Town, Princeton University, “Timbeando en Nueva York: The Roots and Resonances of a Music/Dance Form”."

• Alejandro Avilés, Hofstra University, Respondent

11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: HAVANA SOUNDSCAPE

• DJ Session and Conversation: "The Funk Connection in Cuban Popular Music"

Documentary Screening: Quest for Cuba

• DJ Edgaro, Productor en Jefe

• Eva Silot Bravo, University of Miami

12:30-2 p.m.: Lunch (on your own)

1-1:45 p.m.: Global Rhythms: Workshop

Main Dining Room, Student Center

2-3:15 p.m.: DOCUMENTING THE MUSIC SCENE

Film Viewing: ANIMALS OF CUBAN MUSIC (Jen Paz, 2012; 70 mins) takes us inside a thriving music scene in Cuba to explore tensions between defenders of reggaeton and Cuban salsa who share their thoughts between live performances. Featuring: Gente de Zona, Charanga Habanera, Baby Lores, El Chacal, Bamboleo, Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco, Yulien Oviedo, Insurrecto, El Micha Cameos and interviews: Los Van Van, Mayito Rivera, Roberton, Los Intocables, Mandy Cantero, RDR, Team Cuba, Paulito FG, Jose Luis Cortes

3:15-3:30 p.m.: Coffee Break

3:30-4:30 p.m.: TRANSNATIONAL FLOW

• Johnny Frias, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Havana’s Musicians in Miami: Promoting a Transnational Cubanidad in Cuba's Timba and Reggaetón"”

• Yesenia Selier, New York University, “Ven, ven, ven pa' que tu veas cómo está el tren! Cuban Dancing Bodies Transnational Circulation”

Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Respondent

• 4:30 p.m.: Keynote Address: ALTERNATIVE MUSIC IN HAVANA TODAY

Dr. Joaquín Borges Triana, Havana, Cuba Joseph G. Astman

Distinguished Symposium Scholar Dr. Joaquín Borges-Triana is a music critic for several publications in Cuba, and author of several books on Cuban popular music. He is also editor at the art magazine El Caimán Barbudo; since 1988 he writes a weekly column as a music critic for the journal Juventud Rebelde. He is the author of Músicos de Cuba y del mundo: Nadie se va del todo (2012) and Concierto cubano: La vida es un divino guión,(2009). More recently, he has been a contributor to My Havana: The Musical City of Carlos Varela, University of Toronto Press, 2014, and editor for Cuba Counterpoints’ dossier on the role of intellectuals in a changing Cuba. Dr. Susan Thomas, University of Georgia, Athens.

Respondent Susan Thomas is Associate Professor of Musicology and Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia, and a specialist in Cuban music and music and gender studies.

6 p.m.: Reception

7-8:30 p.m.: Global Rhythms: Performance

Student Center Theater, Mack Student Center, North Campus

Global Rhythms is a cultural enterprise devoted to enriching society and empowering individuals and communities through Cuban dance, music and cultural education.