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Joe Boyd in conversation with Mariana H

Musical connections

Querétaro 2025, 

Legendary American record producer and author Joe Boyd (United Kingdom) is renowned for his work with artists such as Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, R.E.M., Cubanismo and Toots and the Maytals, among many others over the course of a sixty-year career. Following his acclaimed 2005 memoir, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s, he has published And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, a thrilling history of the personalities, places, politics, and connections that have contributed to the way our world sounds. This event, which will take listeners on a global journey from Cuba to India, Brazil to Jamaica, Eastern Europe to Africa, will show how the modern musical world was shaped by colonial slavery, migration, and the 78 rpm record—and how unstoppable music is, and how alien to oceans and borders. In conversation with Mariana H.

Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available

Joe Boyd in conversation with Mariana H