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African American Studies Center, 2016
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2016
Music in the Post-9/11 World, 2013
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2016
Latin American Music Review, 2011
Latin American Music Review, 2006
Musical cultures of Latin America: global effects, past …, 2003
Popular Music and Society, 2011
Against the backdrop of a tremendous surge in ethnic identity politics and social movement organi... more Against the backdrop of a tremendous surge in ethnic identity politics and social movement organizing over the last two decades in Ecuador, this article explores two complementary musical trends that have emerged in reference to the country's Afro-Ecuadorian population. The first showcases the traditional music and dance of the marimba as a symbol of Afro-Ecuadorian identity. The second features numerous popular music fusions of the marimba repertoire with genres including rock, salsa, reggaetón, and more, with broad appeal to audiences throughout the country and beyond. The new popularity of the marimba clearly marks a moment of arrival for Ecuador's black community, one coinciding with and contributing to its increased visibility on the national political stage. This paper makes a critical appraisal of this moment of arrival, noting its justly celebrated successes in advancing black self-determination and popular culture in the country, while also sounding a cautionary note about this celebratory narrative's ability to mask the continued discrepancies of power that lurk within the promotion of hybridized "folklore" and a multicultural national identity. Writing about Afro-Ecuadorian folklore during a period of rapid urbanization and industrial development in the mid-20th century, anthropologist Norman Whitten, Jr., and his Ecuadorian colleague Aurelio Fuentes lamented the sonic (con)fusions wrought on Ecuador's northwestern coast by increased migration, incipient tourism, and ideologies of national integration: Nothing could differ more than the traditional music of Quechua Indians, Cayapa Indians, Coastal Negroes, and the modern National music. Nevertheless, these phenomena are being increasingly seen as aspects of the same national music. In Esmeraldas, for example, some marimba bands are taking up maracas, guitars, and bongos, and making their music conform to the wishes of tourists. .. . We are of the opinion that the marimba as a distinct form of folk music, by becoming more of a curiosity to highlanders than a part of the folk expression of culture and social
Música, memoria y educación. Conferencias magistrales, 2019
El objetivo de este texto es plantear que la música y la educación musical poseen un gran potenci... more El objetivo de este texto es plantear que la música y la educación musical poseen un gran potencial para transformar la realidad a partir de construir las disposiciones y la confianza necesaria para el con-vivir. Una cultura de la paz, con dignidad y justicia, se construye desde la transformación de las relaciones humanas en el vivir cotidiano, en el día a día. La música es una forma de interacción humana cuya especificidad es brindar la posibilidad de construir, proyectar, expresar, nuestro mundo afectivo. La música tiene la capacidad de generar comunalidad a través de construir colectivamente estados de alta emocionalidad. La educación musical puede contribuir a este diálogo de corazones. Se trata de educar a los niños, a los jóvenes, a los adultos, en el respeto por la diversidad musical que es el respeto por el otro y su cultura.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World
Latin American Music Review, 2021
los campesinos del Valle Central chileno. Se trata, finalmente, de un trabajo de enorme valor tes... more los campesinos del Valle Central chileno. Se trata, finalmente, de un trabajo de enorme valor testimonial y pedagógico, muy útil tanto para los curiosos como para los investigadores académicos, y que, aparte, suma un logro más al importante y variado trabajo realizado por el Museo Campesino en Movimiento en torno a la ruralidad vallecentralina (puede ser consultado en https://www.mucam.cl/a-todas-las-imagenes-del-mundo).
Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2009
Page 1. MUSIC AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL CUZCO myosim Harmony * GEOFFREY BAKER Page 2. Imposing Harm... more Page 1. MUSIC AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL CUZCO myosim Harmony * GEOFFREY BAKER Page 2. Imposing Harmony Page 3. Page 4. Imposing Harmony music and society in colonial cuzco Geo√rey Baker duke university press Durham and London 2008 Page 5. ...
Desde los anos noventa, con la consolidacion de un movimiento social afroecuatoriano que ha recla... more Desde los anos noventa, con la consolidacion de un movimiento social afroecuatoriano que ha reclamado sus derechos politicos y culturales, la marimba surgio como un potente simbolo de la identidad afroecuatoriana. Este ensayo hace una evaluacion critica de los usos de la marimba tanto en la musica folclorica como en fusiones populares hibridas, senalando su papel en el fomento de la autodeterminacion negra y de su cultura popular en el pais, pero tambien llamando la atencion sobre la capacidad de esta narrativa encomiastica de enmascarar las continuas discrepancias de poder que acechan tras la promocion de un folclor hibridizado y de una identidad nacional multicultural
Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2008
Popular Music and Society, 2009
... All subscribers to the FAC B journal will be granted access to the entire database. ... For m... more ... All subscribers to the FAC B journal will be granted access to the entire database. ... For many readers, the book's second section will move them from the familiar to the less familiar. ... here a launching pad for critical thought on the diversity of responses in the post‐ 9/11 world. ...
Música, memoria y educación, 2019
El Arte Desde el Pasado Fracturado Peruano, 2018
African American Studies Center, 2016
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2016
Music in the Post-9/11 World, 2013
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2016
Latin American Music Review, 2011
Latin American Music Review, 2006
Musical cultures of Latin America: global effects, past …, 2003
Popular Music and Society, 2011
Against the backdrop of a tremendous surge in ethnic identity politics and social movement organi... more Against the backdrop of a tremendous surge in ethnic identity politics and social movement organizing over the last two decades in Ecuador, this article explores two complementary musical trends that have emerged in reference to the country's Afro-Ecuadorian population. The first showcases the traditional music and dance of the marimba as a symbol of Afro-Ecuadorian identity. The second features numerous popular music fusions of the marimba repertoire with genres including rock, salsa, reggaetón, and more, with broad appeal to audiences throughout the country and beyond. The new popularity of the marimba clearly marks a moment of arrival for Ecuador's black community, one coinciding with and contributing to its increased visibility on the national political stage. This paper makes a critical appraisal of this moment of arrival, noting its justly celebrated successes in advancing black self-determination and popular culture in the country, while also sounding a cautionary note about this celebratory narrative's ability to mask the continued discrepancies of power that lurk within the promotion of hybridized "folklore" and a multicultural national identity. Writing about Afro-Ecuadorian folklore during a period of rapid urbanization and industrial development in the mid-20th century, anthropologist Norman Whitten, Jr., and his Ecuadorian colleague Aurelio Fuentes lamented the sonic (con)fusions wrought on Ecuador's northwestern coast by increased migration, incipient tourism, and ideologies of national integration: Nothing could differ more than the traditional music of Quechua Indians, Cayapa Indians, Coastal Negroes, and the modern National music. Nevertheless, these phenomena are being increasingly seen as aspects of the same national music. In Esmeraldas, for example, some marimba bands are taking up maracas, guitars, and bongos, and making their music conform to the wishes of tourists. .. . We are of the opinion that the marimba as a distinct form of folk music, by becoming more of a curiosity to highlanders than a part of the folk expression of culture and social
Música, memoria y educación. Conferencias magistrales, 2019
El objetivo de este texto es plantear que la música y la educación musical poseen un gran potenci... more El objetivo de este texto es plantear que la música y la educación musical poseen un gran potencial para transformar la realidad a partir de construir las disposiciones y la confianza necesaria para el con-vivir. Una cultura de la paz, con dignidad y justicia, se construye desde la transformación de las relaciones humanas en el vivir cotidiano, en el día a día. La música es una forma de interacción humana cuya especificidad es brindar la posibilidad de construir, proyectar, expresar, nuestro mundo afectivo. La música tiene la capacidad de generar comunalidad a través de construir colectivamente estados de alta emocionalidad. La educación musical puede contribuir a este diálogo de corazones. Se trata de educar a los niños, a los jóvenes, a los adultos, en el respeto por la diversidad musical que es el respeto por el otro y su cultura.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World
Latin American Music Review, 2021
los campesinos del Valle Central chileno. Se trata, finalmente, de un trabajo de enorme valor tes... more los campesinos del Valle Central chileno. Se trata, finalmente, de un trabajo de enorme valor testimonial y pedagógico, muy útil tanto para los curiosos como para los investigadores académicos, y que, aparte, suma un logro más al importante y variado trabajo realizado por el Museo Campesino en Movimiento en torno a la ruralidad vallecentralina (puede ser consultado en https://www.mucam.cl/a-todas-las-imagenes-del-mundo).
Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2009
Page 1. MUSIC AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL CUZCO myosim Harmony * GEOFFREY BAKER Page 2. Imposing Harm... more Page 1. MUSIC AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL CUZCO myosim Harmony * GEOFFREY BAKER Page 2. Imposing Harmony Page 3. Page 4. Imposing Harmony music and society in colonial cuzco Geo√rey Baker duke university press Durham and London 2008 Page 5. ...
Desde los anos noventa, con la consolidacion de un movimiento social afroecuatoriano que ha recla... more Desde los anos noventa, con la consolidacion de un movimiento social afroecuatoriano que ha reclamado sus derechos politicos y culturales, la marimba surgio como un potente simbolo de la identidad afroecuatoriana. Este ensayo hace una evaluacion critica de los usos de la marimba tanto en la musica folclorica como en fusiones populares hibridas, senalando su papel en el fomento de la autodeterminacion negra y de su cultura popular en el pais, pero tambien llamando la atencion sobre la capacidad de esta narrativa encomiastica de enmascarar las continuas discrepancias de poder que acechan tras la promocion de un folclor hibridizado y de una identidad nacional multicultural
Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2008
Popular Music and Society, 2009
... All subscribers to the FAC B journal will be granted access to the entire database. ... For m... more ... All subscribers to the FAC B journal will be granted access to the entire database. ... For many readers, the book's second section will move them from the familiar to the less familiar. ... here a launching pad for critical thought on the diversity of responses in the post‐ 9/11 world. ...
Música, memoria y educación, 2019
El Arte Desde el Pasado Fracturado Peruano, 2018
A Work in Progress: Autonomy of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast, 2016
In 1987, seeking to address one of the myriad issues at stake in the Contra War, the Sandinista g... more In 1987, seeking to address one of the myriad issues at stake in the Contra War, the Sandinista government in Nicaragua granted limited political autonomy to the primarily indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of the Atlantic Coast. This book, based on ethnographic research with stakeholders and residents of the Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region in 1995, analyzes the history of the region and the successes and failures of the autonomy process. A new preface introduces the second edition (2016), noting the continued challenges facing the Atlantic Coast more than two decades later.