Area scholar, journalist to speak about Mexican music industry tonight
(Sept. 17, 2001)--As part of Latino Heritage Week, journalist and Gateway Fellow Cecilia Balli will speak on "It's Not All About Music No More: Interethnic Conflict and Compromise in the Regional Mexican Music Industry" at 7 p.m. this evening at the Downtown Campus in the Buena Vista Building Room 1.338.
Balli, who is from Brownsville, is a first-year doctoral student in cultural anthropology at Rice University in Houston. Her research is on expressions and social relations in South Texas and northern Mexico. As an undergraduate at Stanford University she studied how Mexican-American identity is defined and projected by Tejano music fans from the Rio Grande Valley. Balli is a former writer for the San Antonio Express-News and has written for the Los Angeles Times.
She has studied the relationship between Tejano and Norteno music in the regional Mexican music industry and will discuss the tension between music as business, and music as culture, as well as inter-ethnic conflict and compromise in the regional Mexican music industry.
The lecture, cosponsored by the Division of Bilingual Bicultural Studies and the Guadalupe Cultural Center, is free and open to the public. See the Latino Heritage Week schedule of events.
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