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The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present

this lecture by Sarah Finley (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Christopher Newport University):

Listening to renderings of Black voices from urban New Spain, Dr. Finley will highlight the racialized politics and audio-racial discourses that framed the region’s archive. This incomplete phonographic record mutes actual African and Afro-descendant voices, privileges Euro-centric listening positions in accounts of viceregal sound, and contributes to the contemporary dampening of Afro-Mexican sonorities in “national” music canons.