For four years in a row, Chile led the world in reggaeton consumption. The BBC published a note in 2021 asking: “How is it possible that such a small country consumes more urban music than all of Puerto Rico or Mexico?”. In less than ten years, Chile went from being an importer to an exporter of urban music. According to Spotify, in fact, this 2024 the song Gata only , by FloyyMenor & Cris Mj, has become the most-streamed Chilean song in the platform’s history, surpassing one billion views.

What is Chilean urban music like? What do we know about her? What are its themes, its modes of production and its social uses? In what ways does this music circulate back and forth between Chile and Latin America?

The Millennium Nucleus in Musical and Sound Cultures (CMUS) invites you to participate in the Urban Music Seminar, a discussion space that seeks to bring together young people who currently place urban music at the center of their daily practices and researchers in music and the social sciences. This will be a space for listening, cultural analysis, and sharing experiences, especially inviting musicians, students, and those interested in contemporary urban music, regardless of gender, age, or social background.

This free seminar will be held in eight sessions: Thursdays from October 10 to December 5, 2024, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., synchronously via the Zoom platform.

Thematic sessions will address aesthetic and social aspects. The aesthetic themes will include the definition of competing musical genres; sound, visuality, and performance; technologies; and the digital world. Social themes will focus on bodies, sexualization, and gender; drug trafficking, violence, and narcoculture; youth subjectivities; and the city and its periphery.

In order to take part You must complete this form, indicating your information and motivations, no later than Monday, September 30. The results of the applications will be announced on Friday, October 4.

The seminar has a capacity of 25 participants, who will receive a certificate of participation if they meet 80% attendance.

We are looking forward to see you!

The “Urban Music” group is composed of Christian Spencer (CMUS director), Carla Pinochet Cobos (CMUS alternate director), Laura Jordán (CMUS principal investigator), Ignacio Soto (CMUS principal investigator), Sebastián Muñoz (CMUS associate investigator), Martín Liut (CMUS postdoctoral researcher) and Beatriz Medeiros (CMUS postdoctoral researcher). The group is coordinated by Gabriel Rammsy (CMUS research assistant).

Dates: Every Thursday from October 10th to December 5th (except holidays).

Horario: 18:30 a 20:00 hrs.

Duración: 8 sesiones en formato online.

Plataforma de streaming: Zoom.