The organization aims to decolonize the classical music canon by commissioning new works and uplifting the contributions and stories of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx classical composers.

This class surveys the history of Africans and people of African descent in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present. The vast majority of enslaved people from Africa who crossed the ...

Música y Ritmos, the Latin American ... of Latin music in Hudson County is multi-layered, and multi-generational,” says Juan Cartagena of Segunda Quimbamba. “For our people, music is ...

Cazateatro Bilingual Theatre Group hosted Afro-Latino Night Fiesta at the Memphis Music ... in American history. More:Celebrating Memphis' Latinx community: Meet the winners of 2022 Latin Soul ...

Scholars at the University of Pittsburgh, and five other universities with programs dedicated to expanding Afro-Latin American ... of enslaved people taken to Latin America. Keila Grinberg ...

This Saturday at Town Hall, O’Farrill will commemorate that moment, just over 75 years ago, when Dizzy and Chano bonded over their ancestral past and took the music into the future, as well as ...

One in four Latin Americans identify themselves as people ... in Latin America. However, some groups are still excluded. Download the report Arrow "The school textbooks in the region rarely represent ...

METHUEN — What started as an audience listening to the history of African influence on Caribbean percussion ended as a band playing music from all different island nations. Rhythms of the ...