Education and heritage — 4 June 2025
The First Encounter of the Network of Historical Studies on Folklore and Cultural Traditions in Latin America was held on July 2 and 3, entitled "Traditions in Motion: Culture, Politics, and Identity in Latin America." Here, Javier Rodríguez presented the paper "Violeta Parra and
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Communities, territories and participation · News — 2 June 2025
Last Wednesday, May 28th, a presentation of Sonido Amerindio was held at Universidad Mayor. Its creators, José Pérez de Arce and Luis Felipe Saavedra, provided an overview of the podcast episodes, highlighting the idea of making music from a perspective opposed to that of the W
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Economies, industries and policies of culture · News — 2 June 2025
Carla Pinochet participated in the 28th Contemporary Anthropological Research Seminar last Thursday, May 29, where she gave the lecture "Theoretical and Methodological Challenges of an Anthropology of Listening" at the San Joaquín campus of the Catholic University.
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Communities, territories and participation · Education and heritage — 29 May 2025
This year the School of Listening is multiplying If it reached six educational institutions in 2024, it will now be present in 24 of them and across 10 regions in Chile. This is a CMUS project under the External Environment Outreach fund and connects with two of the research line
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Education and heritage — 28 May 2025
On Monday, May 26, the 16th Music and Musicology Week was held at the Faculty of Arts and Musical Sciences of the Catholic University of Argentina. The meeting focused on Isabel Aretz (1909-2005), an Argentine-Venezuelan composer and ethnomusicologist, to commemorate the 20th ann
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Communities, territories and participation · Events — 23 May 2025
Javier Rodríguez participated in the third version of Citoyennetés plurielles et enjeux matri/patrimoniaux dans les Amériques. Journée d’étude internationale (Photographie / Musique populaire) (International Day of Study: “Plural Citizenships and Matri/Inheritance Issues in the
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Education and heritage · News — 19 May 2025
"A Gathering of Philosophy and Music: Cueca and Jazz, Creative Powers" is the name of the event organized by the PUCV School of Philosophy and held on Thursday, May 15th at CENTEX in Valparaíso. Laura Jordán, a professor at the PUCV's Music Institute, participated in a discussion
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Publications · Sin categorizar — 13 May 2025
On December 31, 2024, the journal Transcultural de Música was published, containing the Rap in Action Dossier. It was co-edited by Sebastián Muñoz, associate researcher at CMUS, and Constanza Abeille. Both authors also wrote the article "Rap in Action" as an alternative to reposi
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Communities, territories and participation · Conference — 12 May 2025
CMUS Research Associate Natalia Bieletto participated twice in the Uncommon Senses V Conference at Concordia University in Canada. First, she participated alongside María Consuelo Robledo in the session called "Sensory Ethnography I" , presenting the talk "From Sound Methods to S
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Communities, territories and participation · Publications — 9 May 2025
The article by Luis Achondo and Leonardo Díaz Collao is now available in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. The article, "Sound, Precarity, and Mapuche Reality in Urban Santiago," explores the role of sound during the Mapuche Llellipun ceremony in Santiago.
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Sin categorizar — 9 May 2025
On May 7, the interview with CMUS researcher Laura Jordán aired in the program "Chilean Women in Music, Sound Art, and New Technologies." Hosted by Gerardo Marcoleta, the conversation reviewed the musicological career of the PUCV scholar. You can watch the interview below: ht
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Communities, territories and participation · Events — 30 April 2025
Natalia Bieletto, a research associate at CMUS, presented her book The Music of the Carpas 1890-1930: Musical Construction of Poverty in the Murray Schafer Room of the National Sound Library. She was joined on the panel by Alejandro García Surdo, Fernando Eslava, Maby Muñoz Hénon
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