Smithsonian expert to discuss Latino music on Monday at UNMC

The Smithsonian’s Dr. Daniel Sheehy will discuss the sounds and meanings of grassroots Latino musical traditions during a Monday presentation on the UNMC campus.

Time Travelers partnership Dr. Sheehy’s lecture is offered through the Time Travelers partnership, which provides free museum admission for medical center employees, students, and their immediate family with a valid identification badge, while also offering lectures, workshops and other events on the medical center campus.

Dr. Sheehy, acting director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and director and curator of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, will start his presentation at noon in the Sorrell Center, Room 2014.

Dr. Sheehy’s book, “Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture,” was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. He has also co-edited numerous other publications.

A Fulbright-Hays scholar in Veracruz, Mexico, Dr. Sheehy he earned his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UCLA. He co-curates the Smithsonian’s eight-year Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture initiative of recordings, Smithsonian Folklife Festival programs and the virtual exhibition “Música del Pueblo.”

Employees are encouraged to bring lunch to the lecture.