[Mus-undergrad-info] Bayz Music Series, Tomorrow, 1/28: "Decolonizing the Art Song: Latin America’s Voices, Identities, and Soundscapes," Lecture by Dr. Patricia Caicedo

[Amy Skjerseth]

*2025–2026 Florence Bayz Music Series*
*Decolonizing the Art Song: Latin America’s Voices, Identities,
and Soundscapes*
Lecture by Dr. Patricia Caicedo
January 28, 12–12:50pm, ARTS 157

[image: 3. Patricia Caicedo_©Carlos Munoz.jpeg]
*How can song challenge colonial legacies and reclaim cultural identity? In
this eye-opening lecture, Dr. Patricia Caicedo explores the Latin American
art song as a site of resistance, identity, and transformation. Bridging
musicology, performance, and decolonial theory, she reveals how composers
and performers shaped national sounds while confronting Eurocentric norms.
Join us for a compelling journey through marginalized soundscapes—and
discover why it's time to listen differently.*

Bio: Dr. Patricia Caicedo is a soprano, musicologist, and medical doctor
whose work brings together decolonial studies, Latin American and Iberian
art song, and the relationship between music and health. She has released
eleven albums and authored numerous scholarly articles, critical editions,
and books, including *The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of Imagined
Nations* and *We Are What We Listen To: The Impact of Music on Individual
and Social Health*. Patricia is the founder and director of the Barcelona
Festival of Song, an international program dedicated to the history and
performance of art song in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese, which will
celebrate its twenty-second edition in 2026. She is the host of the
podcast *Resonances:
Where Music, Health, and Identity Meet* and co-host of *Detrás del telón*,
the Spanish-language podcast of LA Opera. Through her interdisciplinary
path—bridging performance, research, and medicine—Patricia advances a
broader vision of classical music: one that recognizes multiple musical
traditions, challenges Eurocentric canons, and highlights the cultural and
physiological power of singing in one’s own language. Her work has helped
bring Latin American and Iberian art song to new stages, new audiences, and
new conversations about identity, well-being, and the future of vocal
music. patriciacaicedo.com

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visit
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See you tomorrow!
Amy (Bayz series coordinator)
*Dr. Amy Skjerseth* (*she/her*)
Assistant Professor of Popular Music
PI, "Defying Defaults in Technology and Culture
<https://uchri.org/awards/defying-defaults-in-technology-and-culture/>,"
UCHRI Multicampus Research Working Group
University of California, Riverside

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