From Grief and Joy We Sing: The Musical Rituals of Q'eros, Peru

Holly Wissler, a native of Iowa, has lived and worked in southern Peru for more than twenty years as a mountain trek leader. Her current research is with the Q'eros native people, who have made their home at 14,000 feet in the Andes Mountains. Wissler is a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at the Florida State University College of Music and was awarded a Fulbright Award to record, transcribe, and translate the Q'eros' indigenous music. The project is the first of its kind from the perspectives of gender roles, musical change and cultural adaptation. She will show and discuss her video documentary, "From Grief and Joy We Sing."