Come and learn about Mariachi Ensembles in Higher education from our guest speaker Cándida F. Jáquez!
Speaker Bio
Cándida F. Jáquez was born and raised in the Central San Joaquin Valley, CA. She was a first generation college student whose parents grew up as migrant farm worker children. After earning degrees in music history (BM CSU Fresno) and ethnomusicology (MM UT Austin; PhD UM Ann Arbor), she began her career as an assistant professor at IU Bloomington in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. She currently serves as Chair in the Music Department at Scripps College. Dr. Jaquez’ work spans Latine/Latino popular and traditional musics with a speciality in women mariachis. She has delivered invited lectures and papers throughout the US and in Mexico, Canada, England, China, South Africa, Serbia, Scotland, and Germany. Her most recent publication is the chapter, “Three Threads in a Braid: Folklórico, Mariachis, and Embodied Knowledge,” in Tradition and Innovation: Folklórico in the United States, University of Illinois Press (forthcoming). She has received a research grant to pursue ethnographic research in France this summer with women mariachi professionals.
Jamaica (Hibiscus tea) will be served.
Learn more about the Portland State University School of Music & Theater's Mariachi ensemble.