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Latin American Music Seminar

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Dates

This is a past event
Time
10:30 am to 5:00 pm
Location

Woburn Suite, G22/26, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Institute

Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Event type

Seminar

Contact

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Organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

The Latin American Music Seminar is a British forum for Latin American music research that meets twice yearly. Please contact Henry Stobart ([email protected]) if youwould like to be included on the mailing list, or if you wish to offer a presentation or to perform at a future seminar.

10.30am  Arrival/Welcome (Coffee/tea not provided)

10.40  Snezhina Gulubova (Royal Holloway University of London) From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk: Reconstructing Space in Havana's New Music Scene

11.30  Jorge Camargo (Musician and independent researcher) Jazz & Ruakɨ: Converging genres in Colombia

12.15pm  Andrew Green (Kings College London) Sounds of Openness and Enclosure: Understanding Rock Censorship in 1990s Mexico

1.00Lunch break (Please bring a packed lunch or purchase locally)

2.15  Robert Gutiérrez (Musician and independent researcher) The tradition of the solo concert guitar in Andean folk music

3.00  Yuiko Asaba (SOAS) Book launch - Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism beyond the West

3.45  LIVE MUSIC – Andean guitar music played by Robert Gutiérrez

4.15  LIVE MUSIC – Tango music played by SOAS Tango Band directed by Yuiko Asaba

Download programme (pdf)

We are grateful to the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) for their support of this seminar series  

All are welcome to attend this free event.Please register in advance to attend, by clicking on the Book Now button at the top of this page.

Please consider supporting CLACS's mission to train the next generation of scholars in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-latin-american-caribbean-studies-clacs/support-clacs

This page was last updated on 14 April 2025