CESEM researchers at the 6th Congress of the Regional Association for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Musicological Society
The 6th Congress of the Regional Association for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Musicological Society, ARLAC/IMS, will take place from 7 to 10 August 2024 at the Faculty of Music of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. IMS President Kate van Orden will attend and give the opening speech.
Held in memory of Juan Francisco Sans (1960-2022), the congress is organised around 30 thematic tables, 21 communication sessions, 21 book presentations and 4 sessions of the IMS, RILM and IMS Study Groups, with a total of 270 interventions. CESEM will be represented by 5 of its researchers: Caio Santos, Juliana Wady, Luciano Silva, Luzia Rocha and Rosana Brescia.
Caio Priori dos Santos, a doctoral researcher at CESEM, a member of the “Thematic History of Music in Portugal and Brazil” project, and a collaborator with the GTCC, will present a paper entitled “Exploring the Preservation of Brazilian 78 rpm Discography: A Look at the Moreira Salles Institute’s Digital Phonographic Collection”. Priori dos Santos will discuss the preservation of Brazilian discography in 78 revolutions per minute (rpm), highlighting the contribution of the Moreira Salles Institute (IMS). He will provide an overview of the production and availability of 78 rpm discs in Brazil, highlighting historical milestones and the contribution of compilation publications to the understanding of the history of recorded Brazilian popular music.
Juliana Wady, a scholarship holder for the project “Thematic History of Music in Portugal and Brazil”, will reflect on the representation of “Portugueseness” in the discourse of Brazilian music in the first half of the 20th century. “Between lusophobia and lusophony in Brazilian modernism: music, musicology and ‘Portuguese influence'”, Juliana Wady intends to explore Portuguese-Brazilian relations in the music scene of the interwar period, analysing essayistic and historiographical discourses on music.
Luzia Rocha, who coordinates the ARLAC/IMS WG on Musical Iconography with Pablo Sotuyo Blanco, will moderate the session “Musical Iconography in Ibero-America and its informational connections”, with the participation of researchers from Brazil, Colombia, Spain, Mexico and Portugal. She will also present the paper “Deus ex machina or Musical Iconography in the times of AI”, which aims to present advances in studies on the Portuguese Baroque brotherhoods, positioning the results obtained in the light of the advances brought by Artificial Intelligence tools.
Luciano Botelho da Silva, PhD fellow in the project “Thematic History of Music in Portugal and Brazil” presents the current development of his research based on the Portuguese presence and influences in the opera theatre in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo during the Second Empire and the first decades of the Republic, showing the establishment of a cosmopolitan theatre industry amidst the rise of National Identities.
Rosana Marreco Orsini Brescia will take part in the thematic panel titled “Mediterranean Music Studies: The Expanded Mediterranean. Strategies of Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Music in the Two Worlds,” moderated by Dinko Fabris and Maria Rosa de Luca. On this occasion, the integrated researcher of CESEM will present some reflections on the Afro-Brazilian 18th-century singer Joaquina Lapinha, highlighting her role as a free and independent woman and artist in a society deeply marked by slavery and racial prejudice.
The programme is available at this link.
