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title: Spanish Professor Retakes the Stage
date: 2023-11-20T05:30:00-05:00
author: University of Maryland
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# Spanish Professor Retakes the Stage

*November 20, 2023* — by [Audrey Bartholomew ’23](/author/audrey-bartholomew-23)


> Concert in Chile to Reunite His Influential 1990s Rap Group

*Jose Magro 1920x1080 — Over Thanksgiving break, rapper José Magro, a visiting research professor of Spanish, is reuniting with his bandmates for a performance in Santiago, Chile.*

José Magro talks with his Spanish students at the University of Maryland about language and power, sprinkling his lectures with snippets of hip-hop.

Three decades ago, mic in hand in Madrid clubs, he did the reverse, injecting his hip-hop with antiracist and anti-fascist political messages as part of one of Spain’s most influential rap groups.

Magro has maintained his hip-hop career even as the assistant clinical professor built a reputation in academia as an expert on incorporating antiracism into the teaching of the Spanish language in U.S. classrooms. And as Americans gather on Thanksgiving to celebrate a holiday rooted in the experience of British colonists, Magro will return to the stage in Chile. He’ll reunite with his five bandmates in El Club de los Poetas Violentos (The Violent Poets Society, later shortened to CPV) at Teatro Coliseo in Santiago, for the 25th anniversary of their trailblazing Spanish hip-hop album “Grandes Planes” (Big Plans). Presale tickets have sold out.


*Jose Magro — José Magro*




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