 MY
VENEZUELAN CUATRO
[Not so much a hat but my Venezuelan cuatro given me by a Chilean friend
Margarita]
Academic work: Lecturing; Teaching; National and International
Conference Papers
I am at present a Fellow at the Institute of Popular Music, University
of Liverpool.
Professional Appointments
2009-2011 Chairperson IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music)
1987-9 etc
1987-9 Vice-Chair. International Association for the Study of Popular
Music (IASPM)
1983-9 IASPM UK. Variously, Chair, Treasurer & Secretary
1984-8 ICTM UK Committee. International Council for Traditional Music
Teaching-Lecturing
| 2007-8 |
Taught the M.A. Popular Music Studies, IPM/Music Department, University of Liverpool (standing in for Professor Anahid Kassabian)
Set exam questions; marked papers
|
| 2005 |
Temporary Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Music Department of Sheffield University, teaching undergraduate (Music, Culture, Society; Latin American Music; World Music) and graduate modules
|
| 2000-3 |
Music and
Place seminars, Institute of Popular Music, Liverpool University.
Graduate Seminar, Latin American Institute, University of London (Nov.
02); Latin American Music Seminars, ILAS, U. of London (Oct 01); Music
Seminar, RSAM&D (March 02); Music Seminar, Durham University (March
02)
Public Lectures on Cuban Music: Sí Cuba festival, Glasgow (Nov.
02): talks on Cuban music at Glasgow Film Theatre (to accompany film
showing); The Tron; Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum 1998 Edinburgh
University Continuing Education Dept. course on World Music.
|
| 1996 |
Short Graduate
Course, Latin American Popular Music, Institute of Latin American
Studies, University of Glasgow. |
| 1995 |
Temporary Lecturer
in Ethnomusicology, Department of Social Anthropology, The Queens
University, Belfast. Taught and examined Ethnomusicological Theory
and Method; Latin American Music; Popular Music; Music and Media;
Music and Radio (practical course); World Music. |
| 1994 |
Visiting Professor
Fundación Andes/British Council Ethnomusicology, Musicology
Department, The University of Chile, Santiago de Chile. Graduate courses
taught: Popular Music, Theory and Method; Gender and Music; Music
in Performance; World Music; Music and Aesthetics. Also help plan
and supervised graduate dissertations/thesis. |
| 1988-9 |
University of Edinburgh,
Department of Continuing Education: Latin American
Popular Music |
| 1977+ |
Seminars for various Universities
including Universities of Belfast, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Essex, Strathclyde,
Glasgow, London, Liverpool. |
| 1971-3 |
Lecturer, British and
North American Culture, Literature and History, The Catholic University
of Chile, Temuco, Chile. Re-planned courses on continuous assessment/modules
model, trained assistant lecturers. |
Conference Papers
I have presented more than 25 papers including key note speeches at numerous
music conferences since 1983.
| 2010 July |
‘Saliendo del cuarto de Tula’: la mujer y la música en Cuba, IX Congreso de la Rama Latinoamericana de la Asociación Internacional para el Estudio de la Música Popular, IASPM-AL (IASPM Latin America Conference), University of Venezuela, Caracas |
| 2010 April |
Plenary, Re-assessing New Song in 21st century: Mi pueblo me hace cantar, University of East Anglia. |
| 2010 April |
Are they playing ‘macho’ or ‘hembra’? A Tale of two Cuban Orchestras, British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Oxford University |
| 2009 July |
“Away with canción protesta", 16th bi-annual IASPM International Conference, Liverpool University |
| 2009 July |
Ports of Call: an ethnographic analysis of music programmes on the migration of people, musicians, genres and instruments, BBC World Service, 1994-1995. Migrating Music Conference, Open University at SOAS, London University |
| 2009 September |
‘Cuba at 50: Shifts in the Cuban Music Scene and cultural policy from 1959-2009 Revolución con pachanga’, Cuba Forum annual conference, University of Nottingham |
| 2009 May |
A Case of Intrepid Leadership: Female Musicologists and the Music Business in 20th and 21st Century Cuba: La rumba soy yo la música es mi vida Cary Diez, Latin American Music Seminar, London University |
| 2008 October-November |
‘Assessing The Buena Vista Social Club: "I hope I die very old on stage while I am performing!"’, 19th Conference of the Arbeitskreis Studium Populärer Musik (the German Association for the Study of Popular Music ASPM), … alles hat seine Zeit(All things have their season) Age and Ageing in Popular Music, Akademie Remscheid, Cologne, Germany |
| 2008 October |
‘Dancing back-to-front or ‘how to make love with your clothes on’: regeton and ‘moral panic’ within the cultural politics of 21st century Cuba; The Society for Dance Research symposium Popular Dance and Music Matters, University of Surrey |
| 2008 September |
‘Live Music as Critical Space in Cuba, IASPM UK Conference, University of Glasgow |
| 2008 July |
Desde ‘La vida es un ratico’ hasta las ‘Días de gloria’: re-evaluando la nueva canción en America Latina en el siglo XX y XXI’, IASPM LAtin America bi-annual conference, Lima Perú |
| 2007 July |
'Domesticating la bruja: gendering timba and reggaeton in post-socialist Cuba': 15th IASPM bi-annual International Conference, Mexico City |
| 2008 May |
‘“Saliendo del Cuarto de Tula”: gender, creativity and Cuban women singer-songwriters – a case of separatism?’ Latin American Music Seminar, University of London |
| 2007 April |
‘La nueva canción está muerta: viva la nueva canción! / New Song is Dead: Long Live New Song! Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, University of Newcastle |
| 2006 July |
A Tale of Two Orchestras: Women and Music in Cuba, Latin American Music Conference, University of Newcastle |
| 2005 |
Invited to
give key paper “Entre mar y cordillera: Karaxú!: La música
de la
resistencia de Chile en los años 1970-80, re-visitado despues
de treinta años”; and as participant in Theory and Methodology
Round Table, at III Congreso Chileno de Musicologia (Third Congress
of Chilean Musicology) on the theme ‘Music, Migration and Exile’
11-15 January 2005, La Serena, Chile |
| 2004 |
“‘Ay Díos,
Ampárame’ (O God, Protect Me): Music in Cuba during the
1990s,
the ‘Special Period: the case of Los Van Van”, at the
conference Celebrating the Fourth World, in honour of Professor Gordon
Brotherston, University of Essex, 13-16 September 2004, http://www.essex.ac.uk/conferences/fourthworld/ |
| 2002 |
‘The Music of Cuban
Santeria’, British Forum for Ethnomusicology Conference, Edinburgh,
(April) . ‘The Changing Economy of Cuban Music’, Latin
American Music Seminar, ILAS, University of London, (October) |
| 2001 |
16th Annual Meeting of
the ESEM: John Blacking's Legacy, The Queen's University of Belfast;
'Casa Viva!: La cancion de la rosa y la espina (The Song of the Rose
and the Thorn) - Music and politics in contemporary Cuba |
| 1999 |
Cuba: Globalization and
Musicology: Casa de las Americas, Havana, Oct. 1999; "Qué
vista da la Buena Vista?" |
| 1994 |
IASPM Glasgow: Keynote
paper session: Performance Policy and Practice: 'They Dance Alone:
Amnesty, Music and the Disappeared in Latin America' |
| 1992 |
IASPM U.K. Conference
New Traditional Music in Finland: Varttina - Women's music of the
Finno-Ugric Traditions |
| 1991 |
IASPM International Conference,
Berlin. Does the gringo understand the lingo? World music on the Radio,
a Case Study of the BBC. |
| 1991 |
IASPM European Routes
Conference, Liverpool. Ports of Call: The music of cantautores - Catalonia's
Lluís Llach and Cuba's Silvio Rodríguez |
| 1988 |
International Symposium
Music in the Dialogue of Cultures: Traditional Music and Cultural
Policy, Berlin, 12 invited international participants only |
| 1987 |
Symposium Escritura de
mujeres Latinoamericanas: La producción femenina en
la Cultura popular, oral y escrita: Proa al sur - Para combatir la
'liminalidad' del exilio ('un sueño atroz'): una canción
viva del retorno |
| 1987 |
IASPM France | Popular
Music Production Techniques and Different Genre,
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation,
Paris. The production and ordering of genre in musical performance:
a case of narrative construction and ideological re-generation. |
| 1987 |
Amerindian Cosmology Conference,
St Andrews. | The Case of Q'ohmar 'wayka - Quebrada verde (The Green
Valley): an interface between cosmology and ideology? |
| 1987 |
IASPM USA Annual Conference,
Pittsburgh. | Karaxu! Performance as a Narrative of Resistance. |
| 1987 |
IASPM Symposium Paris,
France. |
| 1986 |
IASMP International Executive
Conference, Netherlands. The Music of the
Resistance. |
| 1986 |
IASPM U.K. Manchester,
UK.Song and History Conference. Chile: La Ultimas Palabras-The Final
words. |
| 1984 |
ICTM Musical Analysis
Conference, Cambridge. Discourse of composition as praxis. |
| 1983 |
IASPM International Executive
Conference, Italy, Milan. 'The IASPM Warm Kiss' music and video project:
Some concluding comments. |
| 1983 |
3rd IASPM International
Conference, Montreal, Canada. | Discourse of composition and ideology:
a case of anti-technology. |
| 1985 |
Conference, Sheffield.
Quebrada Verde: The Green Valley - Two versions of the same piece?
1983 IASPM International Conference, Reggio Emilia, Italy. When does
'folk' music become 'popular'?: the cases of Karaxú! and Incantation. |
| 1982 |
ICTM Oxford Audience
memory of music in concert performance. |
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