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Jesus "Chuy" Negrete

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".

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Co-sponsored by ALAS and the History and Latino Studies Programs and supported by GSU's Intellectual Life Committee.

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Mar 8th, 4:30 PM

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".