The Miner Music Minute on Professor Adrián Aragonés

In this special edition of Frontera Frequencies: The Miner Music Minute Faculty Edition, hosts Roberto Avant-Mier and Ale Seanez interview Adrián Aragonés, a professor in the Department of Chicano Studies. They have a conversation around mixtapes and cassette tapes, as well as his journey of listening to diverse musical genres and discovering incredible artists along the way. Aragones also talks about how he incorporates music into his classes as a learning tool, using songs to create conversation, critical thinking, and help students connect with the course material. We get into his personal musical tastes with "El Jinete" by José Alfredo Jiménez, a song that resonates with his family ties. Finally, he shares the tracks that help him start his day, such as Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb," and the rhythms of Los Tigres del Norte.