# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Big Ideas Lecture Series
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm (-06:00)
- **Event Description**: The Big Ideas Lecture Series brings faculty from the School of Arts, Culture, & Society at Arapahoe Community College into the community to share fresh insights around questions connected to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Hosted by the Bemis Library, each talk is free, public, and designed to spark thought and conversation.

“Who Owns Music?” by Dr. Erin Bauer, ACC Dean of Arts, Culture, & Society


What happens when music leaves the community that created it? Who gets to play it, change it, or claim it as their own? Texas-Mexican conjunto music emerged along the U.S.–Mexico border as a distinctly local, working-class musical tradition and became a powerful expression of cultural identity. But over the past several decades, conjunto has traveled far beyond the borderlands, into rock and country music, across the United States, and to musicians and audiences around the world.


Drawing on the story of legendary accordionist Flaco Jiménez and her research on the globalization of conjunto, musicologist Erin Bauer explores what happens when musical traditions cross geographic, cultural, and social boundaries. Along the way, we'll consider questions of migration, cultural exchange, hybridity, appropriation, and authenticity and ask a deceptively difficult question: who, if anyone, owns a musical tradition?
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/littleton/big-ideas-lecture-series/200030793867420
- **Event Categories**: music, live-music, art, workshops, fine-arts, entertainment, country-music-festivals, science-fair
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 8

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Littleton
- **state**: CO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 6014 S Datura St, Littleton, CO, United States, Colorado 80120
- **lat**: 39.60801
- **long**: -105.00382
- **full address**: 6014 S Datura St, Littleton, CO, United States, Colorado 80120

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Big Ideas Lecture Series being held?
  - **A:** Big Ideas Lecture Series takes place on Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm at 6014 S Datura St, Littleton, CO, United States, Colorado 80120.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Big Ideas Lecture Series?
  - **A:** Big Ideas Lecture Series is organized by Bemis Public Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Big Ideas Lecture Series is ideal for music lovers, fans of all genres, and anyone who wants to celebrate the power of music - from intimate gigs and live sessions to festivals and cultural performances. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Littleton, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Big Ideas Lecture Series sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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