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The conference culminates with a keynote address and performance
by Costa Rican musician Manuel Monestel on “Calypso
and Cultural Resistance,” from 6:30-8:30PM, at the BTSU
Theater (room 206).
According to BGSU’s Susana Peña,
Associate Professor, Department
of Ethnic Studies, “Monestel is an ethnomusicologist, musician,
composer and leading expert on Afro-Costa Rican
calypso music (calypso
limonense)” and has performed throughout the world.
Monestel is a 2008/2009 Society Fellow at
Cornell University’s Society for
the Humanities, who is the author of Ritmo Canción e Identidad:
Una historia Sociocultural del Calypso Limonense [Rhythm, Song,
and Identity: A Sociocultural History of Limon Calypso] (San
José: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 2005).
He has contributed to the collections Regional Footprints (University
of the West Indies, 2006) and Nuestra Musica y Danzas
Tradicionales (San José. Coordinación Educativa y Cultural
Centroamericana. 2003).
Monestel has directed projects for the University of Peace, the
National Counsel of University Principals, and the
Associated Colleges of the Midwest
and has composed over one hundred songs. He is the leader of the
band Cantoamerica.
He has also performed as a soloist and with the group, La
Orquesta de la Papaya. Monestel will be teaching a course
on the “Music Industry and Society” at Cornell University; he
has previously taught courses at the
University of Costa Rica.
According to Dr. Peña, the ICS Latin American and Latino/a
Studies Cluster “is an interdisciplinary group of faculty who
work in the fields of Latin American and Latino/a Studies; it
works to increase the visibility of Latin American and Latino/a
Studies on campus through programming initiatives,
curriculum development, and
research. Faculty in History, Romance and Classical Studies,
and Ethnic Studies participate in the Cluster. Visit:
www.bgsu.edu/organizations/lalsc
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