Encuentros/Encounters 2006: Music & Politics
in the Andes
Wednesday, February 22 at 1:00 pm
Gabriela
Frank has cancelled the Wednesday, February 22 1:00 presentation because
of illness.
Peruvian-American composer Gabriela Frank
Gabriela Frank discusses and performs her own work, featured later in
an 8pm concert by the Kronos Quartet in the University Theatre.
Performance
Lab, ARTS 166
Admission: Free and open to the campus community
Attendance is Mandatory for all Music Faculty, Majors and Minors
Parking: Permits available at Information
Kiosks
Wednesday, February 22 at 8:00 pm
Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin; John Sherba, violin; Hank Dutt, viola; Jeffrey
Zeigler, cello
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Theatre
Admission: $32 General, $16 Student
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Thursday, February 23 at 8:00 pm
Two of Peru's foremost performers of traditional music,
Manuelcha Prado and Carlos Falconi, present a concert of
testimonial music from the Ayacucho region, an area
devastated by political violence in the 1980s and 1990s.
University of California, Riverside
Performance
Lab, ARTS 166
Photo: Carlos Falconi and Manuelcha Prado.
| Music and Politics in the Andes |
A one-day conference exploring the
rich and complex relationships between traditional/popular music
and the often fractious realm of contemporary politics in the
Andean region.
February 23, Thursday, 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
University of California, Riverside
Performance
Lab, ARTS 166
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Speakers:
9:00 - 11:00 am
Nation, Region, and the Roots of Musical Politics in the Andes
Chair: Freya
Schiwy, UCR Department of Hispanic Studies
Andean Music, the Left and Pan_Americanism: The Early History
Fernando Rios (Miami University of Ohio)
The Chilean Way to the Andes: Music, Politics and Otherness
Juan Pablo González
(Universidad Católica de Chile)
The Politics of Nationalism in Bolivian National Music
Michelle Bigenho (Hampshire
College)
Folklore and the Politics of Region and Nation Building: Cuzco 1920-1950
Zoila Mendoza (UC
Davis)
11:00 am
Against the Grain: An Artist's Survival Guide to Peru
Documentary screening and discussion with filmmaker Ann
Kaneko
1:30 pm
Case Studies in the Politicization of Music in the Andes
Chair: Walter Clark,
Chair, UCR Department of Music
The Indigenous Voice?: Radio, Festivals & Provoking Protest in
the Wayñu Music of Northern Potosí, Bolivia
Henry
Stobart (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Mama Coca: Music, Coca and Indigenous Cultures in Bolivia
Victoria
Bomberry (UCR Department of Ethnic Studies)
The Canción Social Ayacuchana: A Comparative Social History
Jonathan Ritter
(UCR Department of Music)
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Politicizing Difference in Musics of the Andean Region
Chair: Jonathan
Ritter, UCR Department of Music
Sounding Out a New Peru: Music, Media, and Citizenship in the Andean
Public Sphere
Joshua Tucker
(University of Chicago)
African or Andean? Origin Myths and Musical Performance in the Cradle
of Black Peru
Heidi Feldman (UCSD)
Santa Libertad: Teatro del Milenio and the Debate Over
Music and Social Consciousness in the Afroperuvian Community
Javier León
(Tulane University)
