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Monday, November听2, 5:30 pm on Zoom (MST)
A听Counterpoints Lecture听with Kristie Soares,听Assistant Professor of Women & Gender Studies
, Zoom听meeting ID:听940 2532 5981
Free and Open to Everyone
Professor Soares will deliver the inaugural AMRC听Counterpoints Lecture听(featuring interdisciplinary distinguished music scholars) with her talk, "Dancing With Death: Celia Cruz鈥檚 Az煤car and Queer of Color Survival."听This presentation听explores the evolution of Celia Cruz鈥檚 signature catchphrase听az煤car听[sugar]听from her early career with Fania Records, to her later music with Sony Music, and finally to its posthumous adoption by queer fans of color both at her funeral and in the aftermath of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre. In doing so the talk argues听that听az煤car听represented听an embodied way to negotiate the patriarchal norms of the artist鈥檚 records labels, a mode of pushing back against the aspirational whiteness and heteronormativity of the Cuban community, and a model for queer of color survival in a murderous world.