Practicing Music, Practicing Culture: Exercising Bodies and Civic Activism

The pasacalle of Villa El Salvador is a communal art form that incorporates Peru’s indigenous ritual practices and Afro-Brazilian–derived drum music. This lecture by Dr. Carlos Odria of the University of Massachusetts Boston explores how pasacalle artists fine-tune their drumming skills and strengthen Andean values of mutuality and reciprocity. Sponsored by the Music Department. Free