David Romtvedt at Saturday U presents Inseparable Ingredients: Food and Music
Channel: Wyoming Videos
Date: 2013-06-13

David Romtvedt at Saturday U presents Inseparable Ingredients: Food and Music
Inseparable Ingredients: Food and Music: David Romtvedt, Former Poet Laureate of Wyoming and Professor of English, University of Wyoming
David Romtvedt, Former Poet Laureate of Wyoming and Professor of English, University of Wyoming
Looking at a number of New World musics including Cajun, Creole, Tejano, and Norteño, David Romtvedt discusses the ways that cultures use food and music as respites, as rechargers, and as linked pleasures. How did polka turn itself into cumbia and waltz into huapango? Just as American musics are made from the crossings of Old World and New World musical practices, so do our American foods reflect a mixing of Old World and New World ingredients. Watch as the lifelong learners dance, cook, eat, and discuss.
Saturday University is a collaborative program connecting popular UW professors with Wyoming residents who have a desire to learn. Saturday University is sponsored by the University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming Foundation and the Wyoming Humanities Council. The program is sponsored locally by Gillette College. The food-themed Gillette program complements the Key Ingredients: America by Food exhibit tour from the Smithsonian Institution and the Wyoming Humanities Council on display at the Campbell County Public Library in March and April.
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