Son Jarocho, Community, and Liberatory Imagination: An Interview with Martha Gonzalez

Music & Peacebuilding

Imaginations in peacebuilding and the arts are seen as almost a universal good. This podcast episode adds complexity, exploring how imaginations of a “modern” Mexico led to indigenous persecution and how imaginations of fame and prestige may be destructive to relationship. In contrast, Martha Gonzalez of Grammy-nominated Quetzal, explores liberatory imaginations of community, belonging, and women’s testimonio within the fully embodied, communal practice of Fandango and Son Jarocho. Exploring indigenous relationality, Fandango Fronterizo, and Chicana feminist scholarship, this conversation opens new perspectives of activism.

The Music & Peacebuilding Podcast is hosted by Kevin Shorner-Johnson at Elizabethtown College. Join our professional development network at www.musicpeacebuilding.com - thinking deeply we reclaim space for connection and care.

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1. Son Jarocho, Community, and Liberatory Imagination: An Interview with Martha Gonzalez (00:00:00)

2. Central Passions of Community (00:01:57)

3. Disruptions of Community (00:05:14)

4. Embodied Being and Fandango (00:11:30)

5. Convivencia (00:16:51)

6. Indigenous Relationality (00:19:40)

7. Imagined Histories of Erasure (00:24:12)

8. Rescate of Fandango (00:29:54)

9. Women's Testimonio (00:31:10)

10. Tarima (00:37:05)

11. Quetzal's El Rio (00:39:41)

12. Collective Songwriting (00:40:23)

13. Sobreviviendo & Testimonio (00:41:14)

14. Rigoberta Menchú (00:44:05)

15. Creativity and Imagination (00:45:51)

16. Imagination & Fandango Fronterizo (00:49:18)

17. Closure (00:52:29)