Ancestras: The bullerengue-voice as a politics of resistance
Date: December 12, 2022
Time: 11:00a – 12:30p
Register: http://bit.ly/1212
The Emerging Scholars Workshop is a program sponsored by the Colombian Studies Initiative in collaboration with NYU CLACS that offers Masters, Ph.D and advanced undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines to present current Colombia-related research or working papers to fellow scholars and peers.
The goal of these workshops is to expand interdisciplinary and intercollegiate academic exchange between participating students and faculty to continue the development and analysis of research concerning Colombia throughout NYU and other academic institutions. The workshop will offer a space for presenting students to create discussion and receive feedback from an expert scholar in their field of study
Presenting: Manuel Garcia-Orozco, PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia University
Commentator: Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Associate Professor of Music at Boston University & Chair of Musicology and Ethnomusicology Department
Topic: We will be discussing the fifth chapter of the dissertation paper titled, “Ancestras: The bullerengue-voice as a politics of resistance crossing symbolic and geopolitical boundaries for Afro-Colombian legend Petrona Martinez.” This paper takes Petrona Martinez’s latest album Ancestras (2021) —and its recording process— to investigate her bullerengue-voice as an entity capable of blurring and overcoming symbolic and geopolitical boundaries through song and recording technologies despite the absence of her material voice, which she lost in recent years.