Frontera Frequencies

The Miner Music Minute on Professor Creslan Williams

By Roberto Avant-Mier,

Published July 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM MDT

In this special edition of Frontera Frequencies The Miner Music Minute: Faculty Edition, hosts Roberto Avant-Mier and Ale Seañez interview Creslan Williams. A professor in the Department of Criminal Justice. They discuss the music Professor Williams is listening to. Mentioning the song that has always stuck it to him "All of the Lights" by Kanye West, Rihanna, and Kid Cudi. We get to know what the professor plays to his students highlighting rap and hip-hop artists such as J. Cole. Finally, the song and group he would choose for a time capsule is "Heavydirtysoul" by Twenty One Pilots, describing its music as "ground breaking".

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Roberto Avant-Mier

Roberto Avant-Mier (PhD, Univ. of Utah) is the Interim Chair of the Department of Communication at UTEP and host of Frontera Frequencies. Prior to returning to Texas-El Paso in 2010, he was a professor at Boston College, and he previously attended the University of Utah, UTEP, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research analyzes the discursive construction of Latino/Hispanic identity(ies) and cultural issues in popular music and film.

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Martin Leon

Martin Leon is a producer at KTEP, editing and assembling radio shows for the station. He engineers and records interviews, as well as being a Board Operator for Texas Standard once a week. Current shows include Jazz Night in America, The Latin Alternative, Classical Guitar Alive, From the Top, and Pipedreams.

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