Draft Questions 5/4 - Caroline Johnson

1.     Entre Mujeres, on the kickstarter website, is described as “This project seeks to make the voices, ideas and translocal dialogues between Chicanas and Jarochas visible through the medium of song”. How is this project another example of a way to fight the concept of social death?

2.     In Maya Jupiter’s song Chocolate she tells the story of a boy, Abdul who is working as a slave. When she says “Think of Abdul the next time you buy some chocolate” (2:10) and the similar theme throughout the song, how is this representative of neoliberalism? How is the creation of this song and others in the Entre Mujeres project examples of resilience and fighting the effects of neoliberalism?

3.     In the video, “Community Stories: Seattle Fandango Project”,  I thought when the mom of the girl who wore her dress from the Fandango to her first day of school and said “I want to show them my identity. Show them I am Mexican.”(7:00) was very powerful. Why does the creation of music in this event allow for such a strong and powerful sense of community?

4.     In “Tide Was Always High:…” it is explained how powerful Fandango is by bringing people together and “Performance in the most traditional sense can have the ability to incite critical thought, which can eventually lead to social change”. How can something like Fandango be even more important in times like we are in right now with coronavirus?