[ANPPOM-Lista] CFP: Musical and Other Cultural Responses to Political Violence in Latin America

[Carlos Palombini]

*Musical and Other Cultural Responses to Political Violence in Latin
America *

*One-day Conference at the** University of Manchester*

*6 December 2013*



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).



Keynote speaker: Professor Michael Lazzara (University of California,
Davis), author of *Chile in Transition*: *The Poetics and Politics of
Memory *(2006).



Music, literature, theatre, cinema and other cultural expressions have long
been intertwined with violence in Latin America. In the case of music, songs
linked to the Shining Path guerrilla insurrection in Peru, chants sung
during Venezuelan rallies by both supporters and opponents of *chavismo*,
the emergence of the genre *narcocorridos* in Mexico, 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: 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 cultural expressions might assume similar
functions. As John Blacking observes in *How Musical is Man?* (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.”



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 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. Themes to be addressed in the conference include, but
are not limited to:



- human rights violations

- migration and exile

- testimony

- censorship

- political activism

- memory and post-memory

- nostalgia

- commemoration

- reconciliation and healing

- public space

- mediatic representations

- research ethics and methodologies



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 (katia.chornik em manchester.ac.uk) by *15 August 2013
*. Speakers will be notified of their acceptance or otherwise by 1st
September.





Dr Katia Chornik

(From September 2013)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of Music
The University of Manchester
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Coupland Street
Manchester M13 9PL

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