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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span>Musical and Other Cultural Responses to Political Violence in Latin America
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-IN">One-day Conference at the</span></b><b><span> University of Manchester</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-IN">6 December 2013</span></b><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-IN">Supported
by the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, the Centre for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the Centre
for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Languages (CIDRAL).</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Keynote speaker: Professor Michael Lazzara (University of California, Davis), author of
<i>Chile in Transition</i>: <i>The Poetics and Politics of Memory </i>(2006).</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Music, literature, theatre, cinema and other
</span><span lang="EN-IN">cultural expressions</span><span lang="EN-IN">
</span><span>have long been intertwined with violence in Latin America. In the case of music, s</span><span lang="EN-IN">ongs linked to the Shining
Path guerrilla insurrection in Peru, chants sung during Venezuelan rallies by both supporters and opponents of
<i>chavismo</i>, the emergence of the genre </span><i><span>narcocorridos</span></i><span> in Mexico,
</span><span lang="EN-IN">and pieces played by political prisoners and
agents in detention and torture centres in Pinochet’s Chile offer
examples of the many ways it can function in the context of violence:
</span><span>as a form of indoctrination and tool to abuse human rights,
as a means to encourage and propagate political conflicts, aggression
and social disruption, or as a survival tactic to resist violence
and overcome traumatic situations, among other roles. Literature,
theatre, cinema and other
</span><span lang="EN-IN">cultural expressions
</span><span>might assume similar functions.
</span><span lang="EN-IN">As
</span><span>John Blacking observes in
<i>How Musical is Man?</i> (1973), “It sometimes happens that remarkable
cultural developments can take place in societies in which man’s
humanity is progressively abused, restricted, and disregarded. This is
because cultural development can reach a stage where
it is almost mechanically self-generative.”</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-IN">This
interdisciplinary conference will explore functions played by music and
other cultural expressions in contexts of political violence
in Latin America. The event is part of the Levehulme project ‘Sounds of
Memory: Music and Political Captivity in Pinochet’s Chile’ at the
University of Manchester. We welcome proposals from any area of the
humanities and social sciences, particularly those
</span><span>dealing with anniversaries or events relating to state
violence taking place in 2013, including the fortieth anniversary of the
onset of the Chilean and Uruguayan dictatorships, the fifteenth
anniversary of Pinochet’s detention in London, the genocide sentence
against former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and the death of
the Argentinean ‘Dirty War’ criminal Jorge Rafael Videla. Papers
prompting reflection on processes of memorialisation
and reconciliation, as well as the continuing legacies of past regimes
and those who opposed them, will be especially welcome.
</span><span lang="EN-IN">Themes to be addressed in the conference include, but are not limited to:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- human rights violations
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- migration and exile
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- testimony
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- censorship</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- political activism
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- memory and post-memory
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- nostalgia</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- commemoration
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- reconciliation and healing</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- public space</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- mediatic representations</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-IN">- research ethics and methodologies</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>The working
language of the conference will be English. Papers should last no longer
than 20 minutes, including audio and visual illustrations. Abstracts
of 250–300 words should be sent to the conference
organiser, Katia Chornik (</span><span lang="EN-IN"><a href="mailto:katia.chornik@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank">katia.chornik@manchester.ac.uk</a>) by <b>15 August
2013</b>. S</span><span>peakers will be notified of their acceptance or otherwise by 1st September.</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>Dr Katia Chornik</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span>(From September 2013)<br>
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow<br>
Department of Music<br>
The University of Manchester<br>
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama<br>
Coupland Street<br>
Manchester M13 9PL</span></p></div><br>-- <br><div>carlos palombini<br>pesquisador visitante, centro de letras e artes, unirio<br></div><a href="http://ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini" target="_blank">ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini</a><br>
<a href="http://proibidao.org" target="_blank">proibidao.org</a><br><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>
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