This Friday, October 24th and Saturday, October 25th, the 10th Conference of Emerging and Aspiring Music Researchers will be held, organized by the Chilean Society of Musicology and sponsored by the Millennium Nucleus in Musical and Sound Cultures (CMUS). On the opening day, Carla Pinochet will give the keynote address entitled “A ‘Ceramic-Eared’ Anthropologist in the Land of Musicologists.”

CMUS thesis students will also participate in this meeting on Friday. Javiera Muñoz will present “Rootedness, Uprooting, and Artistic Denunciation: Mercedes Sosa in Exile (1979-1982)” at the panel moderated by Emanuel Ramírez, “Music and Politics in the Southern Cone.” Javiera Montecinos will present “Sound Materialization and Spaces of Possibility for Divine Manifestation: Ethnography of the Canto a lo Poeta a lo Divino in Central Chile” at the panel “Rituality and Religion in Musical Practices in Chile and Argentina,” moderated by Leonardo Díaz (adjunct researcher at the Nucleus). Víctor Arando will present “Scandalous Rhythms and Silent Scandals at Urban Fairs in the City of La Paz” at the panel “Musical Practices in Urban Spaces,” led by CMUS associate researcher Javier Rodríguez.

The meeting continues on Saturday, the 25th, at the Víctor Jara Foundation. During this session, CMUS executive coordinator and doctoral candidate Daniel Domingo will moderate the panel “Traditional Musical Practices in Chile and Argentina,” while Javier Rodríguez will lead the panel “Music, Globalization, and Digital Spaces.”

Download the full program from the official website of the Chilean Musicology Society.

10th Conference on Emerging and Training Music Researchers

Friday, October 24th

Panel “Music and Politics in the Southern Cone” (9:00-10:30)

Panel “Music and Politics in the Southern Cone” (9:00-10:30) (11:00-12:30)

Carla Pinochet: “A ‘Ceramic-Eared’ Anthropologist in the Land of Musicologists.”

Sala San Juan, Music Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, (Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz 3300, Santiago)

Saturday, October 25th

Panel “Traditional Musical Practices in Chile and Argentina” (2:30-4:00)

Panel “Music, Globalization, and Digital Spaces” (4:00-5:30)

Fundación Víctor Jara (Almirante Riveros 067, Santiago)