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“History in the Making: Mexico City, 1564: Nahuatl Protest Songs During a Year of Crisis” by Dr. Peter Sorensen (HKBU)
“History in the Making: Mexico City, 1564: Nahuatl Protest Songs During a Year of Crisis” by Dr. Peter Sorensen (HKBU)
In 1564, Nahua singers performed three protest songs in Mexico City in the lead up to street riots. This talk will show how colonial period Nahua singers used their song tradition, developed during the precolonial period, to communicate with their own Nahua nobility. The lyrics and performances, when contextualized with other documents, show us that […]