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Background
Denise Frazier is an educator, musician, and interdisciplinary artist, as well as the assistant director of the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South research center at Tulane University, which grants fellowships and organizes public programming, immersive experiences, and collective contemplation about the Gulf South. She earned her MA and PhD in Latin American studies from Tulane University, studying the political and social dimensions of hip-hop music and performance in early 21st-century Cuba and Brazil.
Interests
Frazier’s research interests include the Gulf South and the Anthropocene, sound studies and the political, social, digital, natural, and built environments of the Gulf South and Circum-Caribbean. She is also the manager, co-founder and violinist/vocalist/percussionist of Les Cenelles, a string and technological interfacing ensemble that performs African Diasporic music through a prismatic lens that honors African and Indigenous ancestors and chronicles ecological realities. As a company member of Goat in the Road Productions, Frazier has used her skills as an actor and as a musical composer in immersive performances and collaborations that tell lesser-known stories surrounding sexuality, politics, liberation, and colonialism.
