In celebration of the Strachwitz Frontera Collection at UCLA! The Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings is the largest collection of these recordings in existence. The nearly 160,000 recordings in the collection were made primarily in the United States and Mexico and were published between 1908 and the late 1990s.
PROGRAM
12:30 – 1pm Frontera Collection DJ
1 – 2:30pm Listening to Collections Panel
Antonio Cuellar, Arhoolie Foundation
Tom Diamant, Arhoolie Foundation
Agustin Gurza, Chicano Studies Research Center
Lisa McAulay, UCLA Digital Library
Maureen Russell, Moderator, UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
Chon A. Noriega, Introduction, Chicano Studies Research Center
2:45 – 4pm Listening to Communities Panel
Cesar Favila, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Steve Loza, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Yuri Shimoda, UCLA Graduate Student
Matthew Vest, Moderator, UCLA Music Library
Allison Benedetti, Introduction, UCLA Library
4 – 6pm Reception with Steve Loza Group
Organized by the UCLA Music Library, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, and the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. With support from the Office of Interdisciplinary & Cross Cultural Affairs and the UCLA Center for Latino Arts.