Soundtrack of immigrant stories

This website’s goal is to reveal the significance of music in my mother and father’s unique immigration stories. Through interviews and song analyses, we will construct a soundtrack that follows my mother from Cuba to Jamaica to America and my father from Nicaragua to Panama to America. Through their words, the role of music throughout the immigrant experience is discovered. Music can help them feel Cuban or Nicaraguan, music can act as a transitionary part of a transitionary country, music can work to create visions of a better future, and music can assimilate them in a place less friendly towards the “other.”