Emerging Scholars Workshop

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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