GC professor Ben Lapidus will be presenting a paper entitled “El Patio de Adela: Music, Medicine, and Cultural Preservation in Guantánamo, Cuba” at the upcoming The Society for Ethnomusicology 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting, on Oct. 30 from 2-4pm. Congratulations!

Founded in February 2014 and operating out of Dr. Adela Gómez Blanco’s backyard, El patio de Adela/Caverchelo.comb is a unique award-winning community-based project that combines medical care, health education, musical performance, and meaningful inter-generational exchanges while nurturing local cultural practices in the Loma del Chivo neighborhood of Guantánamo, Cuba.

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