Eileen Karmy traveled to Mexico to participate in the RIdIM 2025 International Conference, “Political Aesthetics in Musical Viscourses,” organized by the Association Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) and the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico.

The CMUS research associate will give the presentation “Workers and popular songbooks: labor movement and workers’ political participation through music in the early 20th century” this Saturday, October 25, in Session 7 “Protest and Resistance Viscourses.”

The presentation addresses the relationship between the labor movement and popular songbooks as vehicles for political participation and collective expression in the early decades of the 20th century.

RIdIM 2025 International Conference – Political Aesthetics in Musical Viscourses
National Conservatory of Music, Mexico City
October 23–25, 2025