CASA, together with the Performance Art Museum, presents Música Rebelde, Central America’s Popular Movement Music, an analog mixed media listening series of the music and art of Central America’s 1970s-90 revolutions. The listening sessions will highlight selected vinyl and tape albums from various social conscious music groups of Nicaragua and El Salvador.

This movement included several organized groups of professional and amateur musicians, many exiled and persecuted. Their courageous music amplified the voice of the oppressed, gave strength to fight against imperialism, and acted as a call for international solidarity; delivering powerful messages that still resonate in today’s popular struggle.

Join us for a special program of two listening sessions with live performances in a recreated living room experience – Oct 9th (Nicaragua) and Oct 16th (El Salvador), from 12–2 pm at the Performance Art Museum.

CASA welcomes you to enter the living room of the people’s sounds.

Hosts for Música Rebelde include Roxana K. Landaverde, Edison Calderon, Christian Morales, Alma L. Ruiz-Furlan, and Cynthia Gonzalez – Salvies Who Lunch.

The Central American Sound Archive (est. 2025, CASA) is a project dedicated to collecting and preserving sound recordings that promote the cultural knowledge of Central America; Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Based in Los Angeles where many diaspora live, CASA strives to contribute to cultural memory by visibilizing traditional and popular music, radio, and other sound expressions on both physical and digital formats. The project values shedding light on marginalized experiences, as well as the solidarity, tension, and exchange within the region. CASA seeks to collaborate with artists, students, activists, and educators to contribute to the preservation of Central American sounds in Los Angeles. Currently, CASA hosts a monthly internet radio show called Escuchar al Istmo on dublab.com every 2nd Sunday 2-4pm pt where community members share stories and music collections. To learn more visit www.centamsoundarchive.com and follow on IG @centralamericansoundarchive

Gabriel (Archivo13/he/they) is a DJ and emerging archivist from the San Fernando Valley with family roots from El Salvador. Counterculture and his family’s refugee experience has shaped his passion for music preservation as critical information for communities of color. He is the founder of the Central American Sound Archive (CASA) project, the host of a monthly internet radio show called Escuchar al Istmo on dublab.com and a recent graduate of UCLA’s School of Information and Library Science.

Additional Contributors

Live Music Performance(s) – Jackie Munguia 

Visual (Film) Artists – Jeny Amaya, Kari Ramirez

Photography support – Kari Ramirez   

Graphic Design – Kari Ramirez

Illustration – Oscar Vasques & Eduardo Orozco 

Set Design – Kari Ramirez, Jeny Amaya, Anthony Zavala, & Mario Vidal

Música Rebelde, Central America’s Popular Movement Music is made possible by PAM’s Home for Performance Art Campaign fund, courtesy of Karen Hillenburg, Karyn Kohl, Tim Disney, Betsy Greenberg, Abby Sher, Laura Maslon, and January Arnall.