Jessica M. Gutierrez is an ethnomusicologist-in-training with research interests in Mexico, Native American music, music in video games, indigenous studies, music and identity, and ethnography. She is fascinated by how native peoples in the Americas not only maintain, but celebrate their traditions through music and dance. In her current research, she is using Diamond’s Alliance Studies Model (2007) as the primary analytical framework to trace cultural and historical connections to a famous Zapotec- Mexican song and dance.