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Russell Rodriguez Lecturer (Winter, 2011) Russell C. Rodríguez is currently teaching Dance and Ethnic Studies at San José City College and is working on his manuscript “Mariachi: Performing the Soundscape of Greater México”, which will be published by the University Press of Mississippi. He received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2006 and was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 2007 to 2009. Rodríguez has worked in various capacities with the Smithsonian Institute, he co-curated the 2004 Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture Program for the Folklife and Cultural Heritage annual American Festival, and co-compiled, annotated, and produced a Smithsonian Folkway’s Recording compilation, Rolas de Aztlán: Songs of the Chicano Movement. He is a practicing musician, grounded in vibrant transnational music scenes that put him in dialogue with mariachi musicians throughout Mexico and jarocho musicians in Southern Veracruz. He is in constant dialogue with Chicana/o musicians throughout California, participating in recordings and musical collaborations in the Bay Area and Los Angeles with group members of Quetzal, Ozomatli, Dr. Loco and His Rockin’ Jalapeños, and La Colectiva. His performance background significantly informs his studies on Latin@, Chican@, and Mexican@ expressive culture in the United States. |