H.I.P.S.T.E.R. Online Lecture Series: Carlos Cuestas

Son Jarocho

Son jarocho is a communal music-making practice usually performed in life-cycle events like weddings, baptisms, or funerals, as well as Catholic feast days celebrated by whole communities in Veracruz, Mexico. In these celebrations, called fandangos, the line between passive audiences and active performers blurs, as performances depend on audience participation. The musical pieces, called sones, feature poetry that constantly references nature, creating a space for its participants to heighten their sensibilities to the way they experience the natural world. In turn, son jarocho practitioners, called jaraneros, embark on a journey where concerns about nature, the policies that threaten it, and personal habits come under scrutiny. In this presentation, I will show how some jaraneros develop intellectual and personal postures about their relationship to nature through son jarocho, its poetry, and the communities around it.

About our guest:
Carlos Cuestas is an active classical guitarist and son jarocho performer based in New York City. He has performed as a soloist and in chamber, orchestral, and traditional music ensembles on different plucked instruments in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, and Ireland. Carlos, a Colombian national, is a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at the City University of New York, The Graduate Center researching the effects of environmental change in the poetic and musical practice of son jarocho. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College.

About this event

Bringing some of today's most innovative and thought-provoking research to a global online audience, H.I.P.S.T.E.R. presents five outstanding artists to share their recent work. Using H.I.P.S.T.E.R.'s online platform to deliver five monthly 1-hour lectures between September and November 2022 and then in February & March 2023, viewers are invited to discover new musical findings and pathways, in and around the peripheries of Early Music, Historically Informed Performance, composition, World Music, photography, and more!

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