On today's edition of Sound Perimeter with Lia Uribe, we hear a selection of African American spirituals performed by the University of Arkansas Inspirational Chorale directed by Dr. Jeff Murdock. Spirituals are a type of religious folksong that is most closely associated with the enslavement of African people in America.

In this week's Sound Perimeter, Lia Uribe considers the Portuguese word "saudade." She says the word means a sense of loneliness or feeling of being incomplete; a longing for something from the past of from the future. Lia helps us explore saudade in music.

This week, Lia Uribe explores the lullaby, which is a song typically used to calm children to put them to sleep. We explore the style with selections from Amos Cochrane and Chucho Valdez.

Our Sound Perimeter segment with Lia Uribe is back every Thursday starting today. This week, she brings us a performance of "Bolero" by the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiX4ARa75Uw">a socially-distanced performance and a video project. We also hear a song from the bolero genre titled "Un Poco Mas" performed by Lila Downs, who appeared in concert a The Momentary just prior to the coronavirus pandemic.