Daniela Fugellie and Daniel Party, principal investigators at CMUS, were awarded Fondecyt Regular grants. Fugellie, an academic at Alberto Hurtado University, was awarded a grant for her work “Canon, Translation and Resignification: Cultural Transformations of European Music in Chile (1925-2025)”; while Party, a professor at the Catholic University, was awarded a grant for “Gender Gap and Gender Performance in Latin Collaborative Songs.”

In her presentation, Daniela Fugellie writes the following: “The project starts from the premise that the presence of the European canonical repertoire in our country should be understood as a cultural practice, through which the originally European canon has been transformed, endowed with new functions and contents that point to processes of cultural translation and symbolic reinterpretation.”

Meanwhile, Daniel Party’s summary states: “While credited collaborations are not a novel phenomenon in popular music (duets and other forms of joint performance have been present since the beginnings of commercial recorded music in the early 20th century), their prevalence has grown markedly since the late 1990s. This trend is particularly evident in the increasing proportion of collaborative tracks appearing at the top of the charts.”