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“Music Through Documentary Film”

Adel Nuñez Castillo holds a red guitar and is smiling, while someone plays congas in the background.

November 2, 2025 - 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Scott Linford Pierpaolo Polzonetti Jennifer Sherrill Ana María Díaz-Pinto

Ann E. Pitzer Center

Films

Rubble
“When the day and all else is gone, what remains is the party in the rubble”
— by Ana María Díaz-Pinto

Mind Hands Work: Fidel Sambou Builds an Ekonting
— by Professor Scott Linford / Royal Anthropology Institute Film Festival 2025

El Sabroso
about Cuban tres-guitarist Adel Nuñez Castillo
— by Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti / Newport Beach Film Festival 2025

Oh Boy
— by Jen Sherrill / International Lesvos Peace Festival 2025

Music is love, music is transparency, music is everything beautiful depending on how you want to see it.
— Adel Nuñez Castillo (“El Sobroso”)

A screening of recent music documentaries by UC Davis faculty and graduate students. These four selections offer portraits of musicians and music communities from Cuba, Chile, Senegal, and California.

Free

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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November 2, 2025 - 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Scott Linford Pierpaolo Polzonetti Jennifer Sherrill Ana María Díaz-Pinto

Ann E. Pitzer Center, Davis, CA

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Faculty Profile

Scott Linford
Assistant Professor of Music
Director of Old Time and Bluegrass Ensemble

Scott Linford in a blue collared shirt in front of a red-brick wall.

June 14, 2022 Ph.D. and M.A., ethnomusicology, UCLA

Scott Linford is a music scholar, filmmaker, and musician who has conducted research in West Africa, Central America, and the United States. His primary research interests include participation and musical experience, identity and belonging, agriculture and the environment, musical repatriation, and colonial and post-colonial politics. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds a master of arts degree and Ph.D.

(530) 754-7092 ‬

Room 228B, Music Building

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Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Professor of Music

August 22, 2017 MusicologyPh.D. Musicology, Cornell University

Pierpaolo Polzonetti is a musicologist specializing in music and food, opera, eighteenth-century instrumental music, jazz, and Cuban popular music. He is the author of Feasting and Fasting in Opera: From Renaissance Banquets to the Callas Diet (University of Chicago Press, 2021), the first book-length study to explore rituals of eating and drinking and gastronomic symbols in opera.

Room 132, Music Building

(530) 752-9041

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Student Profile

Jennifer Sherrill

September 15, 2020

Jennifer Sherrill has been a musician and teacher in the Chicago region for the past twenty years. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s in vocal performance and vocal pedagogy from Northern Illinois University and North Park University. She has served as cantor and youth choir director for Saint Gregory the Great on the north side of Chicago and has introduced countless young students to the joys of piano, ukulele, and singing.

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Ana María Díaz-Pinto

June 24, 2021 B.A. Music, Musicology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Ana María Díaz-Pinto is a PhD student in ethnomusicology. She is originally from Rancagua, Chile, and received her bachelor’s degree in music, with a major in musicology, from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2020. During her undergraduate experience, she developed a particular interest in dance and movement, performance and ethnography theory, and Latin American youth culture.

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