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March 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2025 Business Meeting, Minneapolis
Following the success of previous meetings, the Ibero-American Music Study Group invites its members and any conference attendees to a new edition of the IAMSG-AMS Lightning Lounge, to be held during our business meeting at the annual AMS conference in Minneapolis. Like preceding versions, this Lightning Lounge will feature a selection of short papers centered around a broad and inclusive theme. This year, the central topic will be Music, Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula.
Although protest music is often associated with recent histories, it has been an integral part of the social fabric of the Ibero-American world since the sixteenth century. Across different historical moments, music has served as a tool for denunciation against oppression, resistance, and both individual and collective expression. This theme invites us to explore how music has shaped, and has been shaped by, various forms of social protest, with particular attention to historically marginalized voices whose sonic expressions have frequently remained at the margins of dominant narratives. The complex and dynamic processes of repression and assimilation vary according to historical and geographical contexts, producing diverse responses while also creating spaces in which music is negotiated within new structures and voices of dissent are amplified. Furthermore, we encourage perspectives that examine the notation, recording, and archival preservation of protest music as tools of power in shaping musical memory. How have processes of notation, written documentation, sound recording, and archival preservation influenced the remembrance or silencing of these practices? This inquiry aligns with broader debates on orality, aurality, and performance as alternative modes of agency, as well as recent discussions on materiality and the negotiation of power between individuals, objects, and sonic practices.
We invite abstract submissions for 10-minute presentations that explore the intersections of music and protest across historical periods in the geographical areas presented before. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Sonic strategies of protest from the colonial period to the present
- Censorship, persecution, and the resilience of protest music
- Marginalized groups and sonic expressions of dissent
- Sounds, spaces, and the performances of protest
- Orality, notation, and the recording of dissenting sounds
- Materiality and the archival politics of sonic artifacts and media
- The institutionalization and commercialization of protest music
- Music, protest, and digital activism
- Any other topics related to the intersection of music and protest
Abstracts of up to 350 words should be sent to iamsg.proposals@gmail.com by the 5th of April.
Javier Marín-López, Chair IAMSG-AMS
Vera Wolkowicz, Outgoing Chair IAMSG-AMS
Jacqueline Avila, Incoming Chair IAMSG-AMS
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February 2025
2024 Otto Mayer-Serra Competition Results
After much deliberation, the jury has made the following decisions:
First prize:
Mecanismos intertextuais no primeiro volume da Escola de canto de orgão (1759) de Caetano de Mello de Jesus: uma proposta de leitura crítica aplicada em dois estudos de caso, Carlos Cascarelli Iafelice, Università di Pavia
Second Prize:
Uma história por trás do discurso: música portuguesa no acervo de Mário de Andrade, Juliana Wady Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Honorable Mention:
Haciendo música moderna en la Alemania nazi. La experiencia migratoria de la compositora chilena Carmela Mackenna Subercaseaux revisada a través del estudio de Musique pour deux pianos (1936), Constanza Arraño Astete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
The Center for Iberian and Latin American Music is grateful to the scholars who submitted essays to this year’s competition and looks forward to future contributions. It especially wishes to thank the distinguished members of the jury who reviewed the submissions:
Cristina Magaldi (Chair), Towson University (emerita) Jorge Barrón Corvera, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas Daniel Martín Sáez, Universidad de Salamanca
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April 2024
The IAMSG-AMS is now receiving proposals for our third sponsored Lightning Lounge event to take place in the 87th Annual Meeting of the AMS, November 4–7, 2021.
We invite 7-minute presentations that explore the issue of “Music and Migration, Exile, or Diaspora.” Proposals may refer to any kind of musical activity involving migration, exile, or diaspora from and to the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, and the Caribbean in any time frame. Possible topics may include but are not limited to composers, performers, and music scholars who either chose or had to relocate because of their political affiliations, sexual orientation, or lack of economic opportunities; the construction of historical narratives that either include or exclude these musicians; and individual or collective stories of exile, or displacement.
*While proposals with this emphasis will be prioritized, other topics are welcomed too.
If you are interested in being one of the presenters, please submit a Word document with a title and short abstract (150-200 words), institutional affiliation (if applicable), and tech requirements to a.s.rojo –at– tulane.edu no later than March 1, 2021. The subject of the email should be “[LastName] IAMSG Proposal.” Proposals can be in English, Portuguese, or Spanish.
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February 2024
2023 Otto Mayer-Serra Competition Results
After much deliberation, the jury has made the following decision:
Second prize: Jesús Estévez Monagas (Universidad San Francisco de Quito): "Con cristiana modestia y silencio": música y cofradías en la capilla de Cantuña
The jury did not award either a first prize or honorable mention.
The Center for Iberian and Latin American Music is grateful to the scholars who submitted essays to this year's competition and looks forward to future contributions. It especially wishes to thank the distinguished members of the jury who reviewed the submissions:
Teresa Cascudo García-Villaraco (Chair), Universidad de La Rioja
Luis Díaz-Santana Garza, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Marcelo Campos Hazan, University of South Carolina
Walter Aaron Clark Professor of Musicology
Director, Center for Iberian and Latin American Music
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