the book Music Technologies
Case Studies in Recent Argentina has just been published. , a compilation by Martín Liut, a postdoctoral researcher at CMUS. Published by the National University of Quilmes, the book explores the links between music, technology, and society in recent Argentine history through various case studies of popular and “academic” music. The following authors contribute their work: Camila Juárez, Ernesto Lavega, Guadalupe Gallo, Leonardo Waisman, Lisa Di Cione, Miguel Garutti, Nicolás Welschinger, Pablo Semán, and Radek Sánchez Patzy.

On the publisher‘s official website, you can read the following: “Organized into eight pieces, the book is structured around thematic axes such as the stories of changes in the configurations of instrumental ensembles at festivals and popular demonstrations, the voice as technology, machines as instruments, and the relationship between musical genres and technology. Thus, it is possible to find inquiries into the singing of Mercedes Sosa, the use of MIDI instruments by Charly García and Spinetta, the musical use that L-Gante gave to a notebook, the construction of an analog graphic converter in the modernist times of Di Tella, the changes in the types of instruments used in the Tilcara carnival and in percussion groups during social protests, the socio-technical alliances around experimental music and electronic dance in Buenos Aires. This diversity attempts to contribute to a broader view of the links between music and technology, while doing so in a situated way, thanks to the contributions of a group of researchers from different national public universities in Argentina.”.