Daniela Fugellie participated in the International Congress on Musical Lexicon in Spanish: Dictionaries, Press and Other Linguistic Corpora at the University of Salamanca, held between April 15 and 18. Along with Susan Campos (Costa Rica), she was invited to give the opening presentations at this event.

Entitled “The Concept of Musical Serialism from Latin America,” Fugellie’s presentation states: “As we have seen, musical serialism in Latin America has contributed to diverse definitions and concepts. While this is common to the rest of the world, we observe that both in its musical applications and in the discourses associated with them, the concepts of dodecaphony and serialism had their own history in the region, engaging in dialogue with European and international developments without simply copying them. Thus, serialism has been linked to diverse compositional approaches, from free atonality to integral serialism, including personal applications that I exemplified in Juan Carlos Paz; it has been associated with a left-wing ideology only to be later rejected by representatives of this ideology; it has been understood as a path to musical emancipation and as a Eurocentric attitude; it has been both technical and aesthetic; a reflection of internationalism and of subalternity. Contrary to attempting to unify, it is enriching to delve into this heterogeneity, which speaks to us of diverse forms of knowledge circulation and discursive production, but also reflects the contradictions that They are inherent to the craft of classical musical composition in Latin America.

Daniela Fugellie is a research associate on the Musical Lexicon in Spanish project, in the team led by María Palacios at the University of Salamanca