Location
Engbretson Hall
Start Date
8-3-2016 4:30 PM
Description
Using the Mexican ballad form (the corrido), documentary photographs, oral histories, and the guitar, Jesus "Chuy" Negrete explains the causes and major events of the revolution through women's experiences.
Hailed as "the Chicano Woody Guthrie" by oral historian and radio host Studs Terkel, Jesus "Chuy" Negrete is an historian, ethnomusicologist, and musician. Founder and director of the Mexican Cultural Institute and a Smithsonian Institution Fellow, Negrete researched and developed multimedia programs on "Images of Mexican Labor" and "Mexican Women and Their Music".
Women in the Mexican Revolution
Engbretson Hall
Using the Mexican ballad form (the corrido), documentary photographs, oral histories, and the guitar, Jesus "Chuy" Negrete explains the causes and major events of the revolution through women's experiences.
Hailed as "the Chicano Woody Guthrie" by oral historian and radio host Studs Terkel, Jesus "Chuy" Negrete is an historian, ethnomusicologist, and musician. Founder and director of the Mexican Cultural Institute and a Smithsonian Institution Fellow, Negrete researched and developed multimedia programs on "Images of Mexican Labor" and "Mexican Women and Their Music".
Comments
Co-sponsored by ALAS and the History and Latino Studies Programs and supported by GSU's Intellectual Life Committee.