Course detail: Luis Humberto Salgado: A Quixote of Music - Speakers Series
Salgado (1903-1977) was an Ecuadorian art composer whose musical output combined national styles of music with European avant-garde music. He never left his home country and was basically a self-taught composer. This presentation will examine his eclectic musical style and how his work was perceived during his lifetime and today.
Instructor Bio: Ketty Wong is a member of the Ecuadorian National Academy of History and Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Kansas. Her research interests include Latin America art, popular, and folk music, as well as issues of identity, nationalism, globalization, and the reception of Western social dances in China.
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