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		<title>Mi Condena&#8230; or My Damnation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my most satisfying projects of this past year was completing the composition and arrangement of the song &#8220;Mi condena / My Damnation&#8221; with guitarist Yasser Tejeda. We&#8217;ve only played it once, back in May, during The Mermaid&#8217;s Feet concerts in the Bronx, as you will see below.
 
I composed the music and over-the-top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Themes in Planet New Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I spent three blissful weeks as a Greenleaf Visiting Scholar at the University of New Mexico&#8217;s Center for Southwest Research, going through the archived personal papers of a Planet New Mexico &#8220;character&#8221; who has captured my attention: musician, composer, professor, folk music collector and lawyer John Donald Robb (1892-1989). 

I presented my initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perreo &amp; Power - a working paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve been meaning to keep working on this paper titled &#8220;Perreo &#38; Power: Explicit Sexuality in Reggaeton Dance&#8220;. But I still haven&#8217;t. And, given all my other commitments, it doesn&#8217;t look like I&#8217;ll get back to it any time soon. So I&#8217;ve decided to make it available as a working paper. Hopefully, it will serve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planet New Mexico, the Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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A few months ago, I moved from New York City&#8217;s East Harlem to Albuquerque&#8217;s South Valley. Well, actually, I haven&#8217;t exactly quite left New York. My research files and most of my gigs are still there. So lets say I presently &#8220;commute&#8221; between Albuquerque and New York.
My love affair with New York has lasted 17 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las 7 Salves CD Reviewed in Latin Beat Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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I am elated about the review our Raquel Z. Rivera &#038; Ojos de Sofia CD Las 7 salves de La Magdalena just received in the June/July 2011 issue of Latin Beat Magazine! You can read the original in Spanish here or click here for the English translation.
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		<title>Blogging About My Creative Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m back in Albuquerque and feverishly blogging at Cascabel de Cobre about ideas-in-progress for upcoming essays and possibly a new book!
Check some of my newest entries:
Alabanzas in Chimayó: Notes from Planet New Mexico
Alabanzas in Los Lunas: Notes from Planet New Mexico
Utopian Aspirations, Dystopian Results
The Junior-Sized Guru &#038; Me





	
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		<title>The Mermaid&#8217;s Feet - footage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 16:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so pleased with this footage by Arte Institute, chronicling The Mermaid&#8217;s Feet concert I recently did at Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture with my sister-mermaid Catarina dos Santos!
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&#8220;The Mermaid’s Feet&#8221; from Arte Institute on Vimeo.
Check also our rehearsal/interview video by Bronxnet by clicking here.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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I am so happy to announce THE MERMAID&#8217;S FEET, two upcoming concerts I have with my band Ojos de Sofia and my fellow singer-songwriter Catarina dos Santos at Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture in the Bronx on Friday May 6, 7:30pm, and on Saturday May 7, 7:30pm. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My CD on the World Music Charts Europe!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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I am ecstatic to announce that Raquel Z. Rivera &#038; Ojos de Sofia&#8217;s CD Las 7 salves de La Magdalena debuted at #16 on the Top 20 World Music Charts Europe!
My heartfelt thanks to the Ojos de Sofia all-star team that made this CD possible: Bryan Vargas, Desmar Guevara, Alejandro Negrón, Yasser Tejeda, Catarina dos [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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My CD Las 7 salves de La Magdalena was played on World Tracks by Radio France International last Friday!
Plus we&#8217;ve gotten airplay on WFMU (New Jersey), WBAI (New York), WHCR (New York), KFAI (Minneapolis/St. Paul), WHRW (Binghamton), WWUH (West Hartford, Connecticut), Wisconsin Public Radio, WRTU (San Juan, Puerto Rico), 740AM (Puerto Rico), 1300AM (Mayagüez, Puerto [...]]]></description>
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