Personalidades de la Cultura Hispánica
Summary: Listen and learn as prominent voices from Hispanic Culture discuss exciting topics in different fields. From music and film to politics and travel, these podcasts provide entertaining and knowledgeable insight to the Latin American and Spanish world. Personalidades de la Cultura Hispanica is produced by Patricia Rengel, Nancy Bird-Soto, Dinorah Cortez-Velez, and the students of Spanish 226 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Podcasts:
Listen to a behind-the-scenes interview between singer Lila Downs and UW doctoral student Giannina Reyes Giardiello. Lila Downs is the daughter of a Mixtec cabaret singer and a Scottish/ American cinematographer, who began singing and performing mariachi songs when she was eight years old. She was featured on the soundtrack to the movie Frida and performed at the 75th Academy Awards when the theme song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song. Downs performs her own compositions as well as selections of native Mesoamerican music.
Listen to the Peruvian Nicolás Lynch Gamero, former minister of education, scholar and professor of sociology, discuss the state of education in Peru. Professor Lynch also gives his impressions of universities in the U.S. and compares them to Peruvian universities. You can also learn about the oldest University in the Americas, San Marcos of Lima. The interview with Professor Lynch is conducted by Kristina Puotkalyte-Gurgel, a PhD student from UW-Madison.
Mayra Santos Febres identifies emerging writers and trends in Puerto Rican and Caribbean literature in this intimate conversation with Natalie Belisle, doctoral student at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Santos Febres discusses, among other things, the tension created by a demand for “exotic” Caribbean literature. In addition, she reveals why she chose the iconic figure Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer as protagonist for her latest novel Nuestra Señora de la Noche (2006). Keep a pulse on the latest literary beats by listening to Mayra and Natalie!
In this intimate conversation between Professor Nora Strejilevich and Patricia Rengel you will hear about her experience as a survivor of the “Guerra Sucia” in Argentina. Strejilevich, author of the award winning testimonial novel Una sola muerte numerosa, which was also adapted into a play and movie, talks about the nuances of the “lexicon of terror” that surrounded that period of state terror.
In this second interview, Professor Strejilevich talks about the relationship between testimony, fiction and memory. How, for instance, is trauma translated into language or even a literary testimony. Learn more about how Argentina is still recovering from this traumatic historic moment.
Listen to Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, a prolific contemporary Mexican author share his ideas about writing, language and literature with Kristina Puotkalyte-Gurgel. Chávez Castañeda is one of the nine invited authors of an important conference, Ibero-American Writers in the Era of Globalization, to be held in Madison, WI.
Listen to Mario Mendoza, right hand man to Madison's mayor, talk about his journey from Puerto Rico to Madison. Front man for several salsa bands and prominent minority leader, Mario gives his perspective on the latino experience in the Midwest.
Listen to Mario Mendoza, right hand man to Madison's mayor, talk about his journey from Puerto Rico to Madison. Front man for several salsa bands and prominent minority leader, Mario gives his perspective on the latino experience in the Midwest.
Listen to one of the greatest living salsa musicians in this intimate conversation with Patricia Rengel. Palmieri describes his musical roots set in the New York music scene during the fifties where he learned from other masters –Machito, Tito Rodríguez and the late Tito Puente. Discover among other things what a moña is and how it gives his music a unique flavor.
El futuro de la salsa. In this second interview Mr. Palmieri reminisces about Conjunto la Perfecta and working with Tito Puente. The future also looks good according to the master salsero. Listen to the past and present of salsa come alive with this 8-time Grammy award winner.
Explore Venezuela with Padre Pedro Suárez in two interviews with this Lutheran minister. In the first podcast, Padre Suárez talks about President Hugo Chávez and the Protestan movement in Latin America. In the second interview, Padre Suárez talks about his avocation, music and other aspects of the Hispanic community in Wisconsin and Illinois.
Explore Venezuela with Padre Pedro Suárez in two interviews with this Lutheran minister. In the first podcast, Padre Suárez talks about President Hugo Chávez and the Protestan movement in Latin America. In the second interview, Padre Suárez talks about his avocation, music and other aspects of the Hispanic community in Wisconsin and Illinois.
Via telephone from Puebla, Juan Carlos Varela and Julieta Rodriguez describe their artistic process as they create sculptures based on pre-Hispanic history and culture.
Doctor Bárbara Mujica is a professor of Spanish at Georgetown University. In addition to her work as an academic, Professor Mujica writes novels and short stories. In this first interview she discusses her short story “El medio-niñero”, sports and the problems immigrants face in the United States.
In this second interview, Professor Mujica discusses her favorite genre, the novel. Professor Mujica gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the writing process in a conversation with Patricia Rengel about her novels Frida, a best-seller, and Sister Teresa, slated for release this spring.