The 52nd edition of Andrés Bello University’s Revista de Humanidades was published on August 5. It includes an article by CMUS senior researcher Laura Jordán called “Individual bodies, collective bodies: performativity and gender in Samba Da Costa”.

In its abstract we can read the following: “This article analyzes the case of Samba Da Costa, a group of women musicians who play roots samba in Valparaíso through the performative analysis model of Erika Fischer-Lichte (2011) and her proposal on materialities: corporeality, spatiality and sonority. Through a methodology that includes observation of live performances, a group interview and musical and performative analysis from a gender perspective, it is proposed that the musical practices of Samba Da Costa put in tension the sexual division of labor in music, while updating the horizons of possibility of modes of corporeality and collective sonority”.