Inside/Outside. Music and Politics in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The two keywords that best describe the issues of the four presentations in this panel are “inclusion” and “exclusion”. If we analyze how the history of tango and its origins was related to imagined notions of marginality and poverty of resources that came to represent this music genre; if we study how the indigenous was included in different moments in the arts, and specially music, in Latin America during the first decades of the 20th century (and the end of the 19th); if we analyze how music modernity can be combined with tradition as means of social and political critique in music performances by an argentine composer; and finally, if we analyze how recent concert programs are constructed in two of the most important concert series in Latin America, what is left out and what is consecrated in; the question that remains is: what gets to be inside, what is left outside? What do these inclusions and exclusions denote in the different Latin American musical contexts?

Sub Track

• Culture, Power, and Political Subjectivities

Session Organizer

• Violeta Nigro Giunta

Chair

• Violeta Nigro Giunta

Individual Presentations

• El tango y su imaginario. Elogio de la marginalidad como ideal de un género latinoamericano - Marina B Cañardo, Universidad de Buenos Aires- EHESS (France)

• Of Trains, Car Horns and Cactuses. Landscape, Sound and Politics in the Performances of Carmen Baliero - Violeta Nigro Giunta

• Indigenist music: inclusion-exclusion of the indigenous in Peruvian art music during the 1920s - Vera Wolkowicz

• Musical inclusion at the intersection of aesthetics and geography - Sebastian Zubieta, Americas Society

Discussant

• Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier, Columbia University