About
This digital collection was created and curated by Salvadoran-American ethnomusicologist Christina Azahar. Her research explores music, politics, feminism, and cultural flows/tensions in and between Latin America and the United States. The galleries in this collection draw on images, recordings, and video taken during ethnographic fieldwork in Chile and El Salvador between 2014-2018. Each multimedia story examines how marginalized groups across the Américas use music to redefine patriarchal understandings of community, to rewrite understandings of identity beyond national and regional borders, and to re-sound what it means to move, travel, and find belonging in a rapidly changing world.
Unless otherwise attributed, all photographs, audio, and videos on this site were taken by Christina Azahar. All quotes are drawn from Christina’s ethnographic interviews. Christina retains rights to all images, sounds, and video.