Collaborate Edges: Podcast Episode 23 – Latinx Music and Political Action

We are back to our podcasting about intersections across arts, languages, and cultures! We invite you to listen to these conversations in which we provide examples on how to break down traditional language and disciplinary boundaries to foster creativity and new ways of understanding languages around the world, the societies where they are spoken, and the cultures they shape.

Episode 23: Latinx Music and Political Action (February 2020)

One of the features of the MSU Latinx Film Festival is music as a vehicle for political action. Today, we enjoy the live performance of RicanStruction, a musical journey through the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and other regions of Latin America with its significant Afro-Hispanic presence. We’ll also enjoy “Singing our way to freedom”  a film that chronicles the life and music of Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez, César Chávez’s favorite musician. In this podcast, Scott Boehm, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Director of the MSU Latinx Film Festival, interviews Osvaldo Ozzie Rivera, educator, activist, musician, and Director of RicanStruction, and filmmaker Paul Espinosa, Director of “Singing our way to freedom.” Visit https://msulatinxfilmfestival.com/