This week, Latin Pulse comes one day early to provide a special centered on the myths of the Mayan calendar.  Although some wrongly attribute beliefs about a doomsday on Dec. 21, 2012 to the Mayan calendar, this program traces the origins of such misinformation and discusses Mayan astronomy, astrology, and religion.  The news segment of the program covers the creation of a new federal police force in Mexico and how that might affect the Drug War and human rights concerns in that country.
In-depth interviews include:

Dr. Mark Van Stone of Southwest College; 
and 
Dr. David Freidel of Washington University.

Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell
Associate Producer: Curt Devine 

The photo is by Rick Rockwell and is used with permission.

This program features traditional music by Mayan musicians from Mexico and Guatemala available through Smithsonian Folkways Music: http://www.folkways.si.edu/modern-mayan-the-indian-music-of-chiapas-mexico-vol-1/american-indian-world/album/smithsonian

For a playlist of these indigenous folk songs, please go here: https://www.box.com/shared/static/jbw8flrpc89gvldt2j25.pdf


The Mayan Calendar Special (Lp12202012)

Victor P Terrell, Northglenn Colorado United States, Born and raise in Chicago's south suburbs Harvey Ill community, Slickhousevic aka Victor P Terrell, is a DJ, Producer, and Re-Mixer, and Writer who became interested in music in the early 80's, As a result of this curiosity, he developed his skills from such artist like DJ Pierre, Roy Davis Jr., House Kat Felix, and so on, durning his journey, Slickhousevic team up with Joe Ivanoff and E.G. Fullalove for his first remix Tracks entitle "Didn't I Know" and "Baby's Gotta Love" 1994 on Eromlig Records and Emotive, then, " Dance-N-Hoez was release on Traxs Records out of London back in 96', he continue to work on varies tracks with different Record Labels and Artist, such as The Ojays', Joe Ivanoff, E.G. Fullalove, Curtis Blow, Dana, Sierra, Destiney, J-Bad, D-Town and so on, Labels he his credited on are On The Five Records, Black Jack Records, BMG, Traxs, SK Yaris, Miami Techno Chrome Records, Black Trilogy Records and Entertainment, QU Records, Eromlig Records, Emotive, He is currently releasing tracks on Ambrosio Recordings as well. He has over 30 years into the music bizz and currently have over 50 tracks release all over the world, his music can be heard on I Tunes, Beatport, Amazon, Spotify, E-Music, Soundcloud, the list goes on,,,, you can always just find him working in the studio.  SHV

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The Mayan Calendar Special (Lp12202012)

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