Wednesday's Questions, Haleh Mawson

1. Gonzalez talks about the "healing process of testimonio" in relation to both migrants' own stories and to the songs that emerge secondhand from those stories. Is the act of listening to these songs similar to that process as well? I was thinking about it in reference to the California farmworkers described in Campbell's article.

2. How do the farmworkers' efforts to stay healthy and stay at work relate to the idea of resilience?

3. The NPR segment describes musicians of various backgrounds playing music from a wide range of genres to protest the treatment of detained children at the border. "Sobreviviendo," the article by Gonzalez, describes the act of creating a song that would fit in well with those named by NPR, but its creation was far more intentional. What difference does the origin or creation of a piece of music make to its ultimate meaning? Is "Sobreviviendo" a more powerful piece than, say, "I Won't Back Down" because of its origin?

4. The articles about essential workers make it pretty clear that social death is just a few steps away from literal death. Are the two always this closely related?

- Haleh