Skip to main content
Event - this is a past event

Latin American Music Seminar

Event information>

Dates

This is a past event
Time
10:15 am to 4:30 pm
Location

Bedford Room, G37 & Bloomsbury Room G35, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Institute

Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Event type

Seminar

Contact

020 7862 8832

Book now


Organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

The Latin American Music Seminar is a British forum for Latin American music research that meets twice yearly. Please contact Henry Stobart ([email protected]) if you would like to be included on the mailing list, or if you wish to offer a presentation or to perform at a future seminar.

10.15am Coffee/arrival

10.40 Welcome

10.45 Ian Middleton (Independent Scholar - research carried out as Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia), Sounding Our Histories: Collective Composition with Tambores de Siloé

11.30 Xabier Etxeberria Adrien (Royal Holloway University of London) Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing Interventions: An Applied/ Participatory Music Project in Sicalpa, Ecuador

12.15pm Stephen Hugh Jones (University of Cambridge, emeritus) The spirit with no anus and his farting pots: news from an NW Amazonian instrumentarium

1.00 Lunch (salteña – Bolivian pasty)

2.15 Leonel Vasquez (Sound Sculpture Artist/ Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia), Árboles fónicos y el canto de las abuelas: sonic art installations and singing as resistance

3.00 Roundtable: Music & the 1973 coups in Chile and Uruguay - 50 years on. Speakers: Simon Palominos Mandiola (University of Bristol), Guillermo Hill (Uruguayan musician), and Katia Chornik (Kingston University and University of Cambridge).

3.45 (- 4.30)Live Music – an informal Chilean-style peña, including nueva canción songs performed by Simon Palominos Mandiola, María Bernardita Batlle Lathrop and Efraín Enriquez.

Download the programme pdf

Registration Fee: £10.00 covers cost of coffee, tea and salteña (unless presenting a paper or performing). To attend, please click on the Book now button at the top of the page.

We are grateful to the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) for their support of this seminar series and to the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) for their generous contribution towards the event.


Please consider supporting CLACS's mission to train the next generation of scholars in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-latin-american-caribbean-studies-clacs/support-clacs

This page was last updated on 3 July 2024

Related Content