Associate Professor of Music Cándida Jáquez lectures on indigenous dance and music and religious pilgrims who pay homage to La Virgen de Guadalupe in Mexico City’s Basilica plaza beginning at noon on April 3 in the Hampton Room of the Malott Commons, 345 E. 9th St. This talk is free and open to the public.
Considered the Patroness of Mexico, La Virgen is the Blessed Virgin Mary. La Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe sits on the site where it is believed that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to an indigenous man named Juan Diego. Each year, several million pilgrims visit the shrine, which is considered one of the most important pilgrimage sites of Catholicism. Many pilgrims visit on Dec. 12, Our Lady of Guadalupe’s feast day.
Jáquez explores “danzante” – indigenous dances and music – and “peregrinos” – religious pilgrims – who pay homage to La Virgen by way of dance and music. Jáquez’s research focuses on Mexican traditional music, with a specialization on female mariachi performers. She is the co-author of “Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume I” (Palgrave Macmillan: 2002).
This event is part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute’s spring lecture series, “Music, Dance, Ritual and Belief: Transforming Societies.” Throughout the semester, distinguished artists have examined the interplay of music and dance in ritual customs and beliefs. For more information, please call (909) 621-8237 or visit scripps-staging.skybox0.com/hi.