Josh Kun – The Aural Border: Listening Across the California-Mexico Line

In this engaging multimedia oration, award-winning author and University of Southern California Professor Josh Kun takes us on a musical and sonic tour of the California-Mexico borderlands. From the tourist booms of the early 1900s to the rock and roll booms of the 1960s, from Herb Alpert and Woody Guthrie to contemporary electronic music and narco-ballads, and from border sound art to border radio, Kun complements the exhibition Looking In, Looking Out: Latin American Photography with a listening in and a listening out that follows inter-California frequencies from Tijuana to Los Angeles and back again.

Presented in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara's On Edge Festival www.mcasantabarbara.org/onedge