Saturday/sábado/sábado July 15 2006

Identity (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class etc.)

Maria Anastasio (Hofstra University)
1920s Spain: some considerations on gender and popular music

Nuria Borrull (University of Limerick)
¡Que te den! Romance and the postmodernist Ranchera

Frederick Moehn (Stony Brook University)
Pure Sex

Hazel Marsh, (Univerity of East Anglia)
Popular Music, Collective Memory and Political Change in Contemporary Venezuela

Indigenous and folk musics

Illa Carrillo Rodríguez (Université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne / Institut d’esthétique des arts contemporains, C.N.R.S.)
From Ushuaia to La Quiaca: León Gieco’s Project of Collection and Diffusion of Argentinean Folkloric Music: A “Transculturating” Musical Proposal?

Maria Fernández-Toro (School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle)
The Guarani cadence: How bilingual is Paraguayan song?

Sean Stroud (Universidade de São Paulo)
Marcus Pereira’s 'Música Popular do Brasil': beyond folklore?

Global, national and local dynamics

Ana Felipa de Carvalho (Instituto de Etnomusicologia, Lisboa)
Bairro alto: the new face of the old neighbourhood

Richard Elliott (International Centre for Music Studies, University of Newcastle)
Y en eso llegó la fidelidad: Latin American New Song as Event
Raquel Paraíso Tradición y continuidad en la música de la Tierra
Caliente del Balsas (México)

Erika Korowin (The University of Arizona)
¡Virgen santa, mis gladiolas!: Salvador Chava Flores and Musical Discussions of Urban Life and Development in Mexico City

Mass media and modernity

Russo Moreira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas)
Music, fascism and Mass Media: The Portuguese National Radio broadcasting during the 30’s and 40’s.

Franciso Bethencourt y LLobet (International Centre for Music Studies, University of Newcastle)
What are we listening to: Flamenco or Something Else? The Late-Modern Flamenco Guitar as Folk, Popular and World Music hybrid idiom.

Tradition and Authenticity

Rolf Bäcker (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC))
El flamenco entre oralidad y escritura: reflexiones acerca de arcaicidad y canonización en el discurso flamenco(lógico)

Javier González Martín (Universidad de Almería)
El flamenco entre la innovación y la tradición: Un sinuoso camino entre arte y reflexión.

Genre and/or style studies

Thomas George Caracas Garcia (Miami University Oxford)
Choro and the Connections between Popular and Classical in Brazilian Music

Gerhard Steingress (Universidad de Sevilla)
El género andaluz y la escuela del baile agitanado en la París del romanticismo (1833-1866). Un estudio histórico-empírico sobre la hibridación transcultural en la constitución del flamenco como manifestación artística.

Eleazar Torres (Conservatorio Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta, Venezuela)
Estudiantinas Venezolanas: Orquestas de pulso y púa

History, memory and nostalgia

Hector Fouce (SCAM)
Intelectuales y música popular en la transición española

Natalie Kirschstein (Harvard University)
Así Fué: Narrating, creating and contesting history in Uruguayan murga

Fernando Valerio Holguín (Colorado State University)
El orden de la música popular en la literatura dominicana

Global, national and local dynamics

Michael Shade (University of Brighton)
Mestizaje and cultural identity in contemporary Spanish popular music

David Atkinson (University of Limerick)
The politics of hybridity in contemporary music in Catalonia

Paul Attinello and Vanessa Knights (International Centre for Music Studies and School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle)
Sexo contra muerte: AIDS and Popular Hispanic Music

Silvia Bermudez (University of Califormia at Santa Barbara)
"'Mi Casa No es Su Casa': Heterotopias and Transnational Dislocations in Pedro Guerra,Joaquín Sabina, and Joan Manuel Serrat