# Poetry, music and identity

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2017
- Speaker: Jorge Drexler
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Literature and writing, Languages and linguistics, Music
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jorge_drexler_poetry_music_and_identity)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

One night in 2002, a friend gave Jorge Drexler the chorus to a song and challenged him to write the rest of it using a complex, poetic form known as the "Décima." In this fascinating talk, Drexler examines the blended nature of identity, weaving together the history of the Décima with his own quest to write one. He closes the talk with a performance of the resulting song, "La Milonga del Moro Judío." (In Spanish with English subtitles)

## Lectures

1. [Poetry, music and identity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jorge_drexler_poetry_music_and_identity/e0717a327fd4), 17 min (TED's player)