UO Folklore Program Master's Student Participates at the "Scholarship in the Pacific Northwest: New Directions, New Voices" Symposium

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David Ensminger, a master’s degree student in the UO Folklore Program, with one area of concentration is Arts and Administration, participated in the “Scholarship in the Pacific Northwest: New Directions, New Voices” symposium sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. His paper, entitled “When Punk Rock and La Raza Collude and Collide,” challenges stereotypes of Hispanics, pays witness to diverse Hispanic musical traditions of punk resistance, and documents punk¹s complex relationship to ethnicity. The discussion and assertion of a rich, complex, and nuanced Hispanic presence in punk rock ³frays² the genre¹s seemingly fixed, natural, and normalized notion of punk as “music by white rebels without much cause.” By highlighting the roles of Hispanics in punk lore and history, Ensminger hopes such reclamation can become a way to unmask, destabilize, and defeat racist revisionism. The paper, accompanied by a multimedia presentation featured music, photos, and gig flyers.

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