May 6
Guest Lecture: Dr. Jacqueline Avila on Pixar's Coco
Dr. Jacqueline Avila (Associate Professor of Music, University of Tennesee Knoxville) will speak about music and cultural identity in the Pixar film Coco (2017) as part of MUSC 115 'Listening to the Movies'' curriculum. This event is open to all in the Carleton community.
Dr. Avila's research focuses on film music and sound practice from the silent period to present, and the intersections of cultural identity, tradition, and modernity in the Hollywood and Mexican film industries. Dr. Avila was the recipient of the UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant, the American Musicological Society's Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship, the UC MEXUS Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-15), and the University of New Mexico's Robert E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Award (2016). Her publications can be found in the Journal of Film Music, Latin American Music Review, Opera Quarterly, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Dr. Avila is the author of 'Cinesonidos: Film Music and National Identity During Mexico's Época de Oro.'
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