Breaking Borders: DJs, Collectors, and Black and Brown Sounds

6th Annual Cultural Afromestizaje Symposium

Thursday October 12   6PM-9PM

Denman Ballroom

UTSA 1604 Campus

1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249

The event, “Breaking Borders: DJs, Collectors, and Black and Brown Sounds” will present DJs/scholars discussing Black and Brown histories within DJ and music collector’s culture. Topics include Black diasporic roots of DJ culture and Latinx music, technology and shifts in DJ approaches, local collectors and reading records as texts, the art of sampling, and Black and Brown musical overlap in San Antonio.    

Keynote by Ruben Molina, Chicano Soul and Rae Cabello, Numero Group

Panel featuring San Antonio DJs: Dallas, D Major, El Westside Sound, Pac Man, and Sucia Q

Music by UTSA student DJs: Tezcatlipoca and Hinoxosa

FREE and open to the public

Sponsored by UTSA’s Mexican American Studies Program

Co-sponsors

Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies

Consortium for Social Transformation

Student Center for Community Engagement and Inclusion

Dongdong (Carly) Liu

Administrative Associate II

Consortium for Social Transformation

College of Education & Human Development (COEHD)

University of Texas at San Antonio

San Antonio, TX 78249-0654

Office: 210-458-8542

Fax: 210-458-8543