2º Congreso Latinoamericano en Formación Académica en Música Popular

Dice Silvia Aballay
*Coordinadora de la Lic. en Composición Musical *
*con orientación en Música Popular*
*Universidad Nacional de Villa María*
*saballay@unvm. edu.ar*

“2° Congreso Latinoamericano de Formación Académica en Música Popular”

*Tema:*
*Teoría y Práxis ¿una relación posible en la formación de un músico popular?
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*Villa María, **21 al 24 de octubre de 2009**.*
*Campus Universitario. Universidad Nacional de Villa María. Córdoba
Argentina.*

Espacio creado para el encuentro de los músicos, alumnos, docentes,
investigadores vinculados a carreras relacionadas con la Música Popular y
especialistas en el tema, organizado por la Secretaría de Investigación y
Extensión del Instituto Académico Pedagógico de Ciencias Humanas de la UNVM.

El Congreso se realizará del 21 al 24 de octubre de 2009 y contará como
actividad principal con *Mesas Temáticas* de Discusión centradas en
problemáticas referidas a la formación en música popular, donde se
presentarán las ponencias aceptadas por el Comité de Lectura. Los
participantes podrán elaborar ponencias sobre productos de experiencias como
docentes o productos de la investigación. Las mismas contarán con un
moderador y secretario de actas encargados de llevar registro de lo actuado
para así arribar a las conclusiones como resultado del Congreso.

Las mesas temáticas de discusión contemplan la presentación de cuatro
expositores, destinando un importante tiempo para el intercambio entre los
ponentes y de éstos con el público con el objeto que el encuentro no sea una
mera exposición de resultados sin llegar, por medio de la discusión, a
nuevas construcciones producto del intercambio entre pares.

También se prevé la realización de *Mesas Redondas* con panelistas invitados
donde los asistentes al Congreso, hayan presentado o no ponencias, puedan
incorporarse libremente a participar de los debates, las que contarán
también con un moderador y un secretario de actas.

Además, se llevarán a cabo Conferencias con destacados especialistas de las
temáticas planteadas y Conciertos a cargo de docentes, alumnos de la carrera
y los elencos de la UNVM y Peña de integración con la libre participación de
los asistentes.

*Objetivos: *
§ Propiciar la discusión sobre la problemática de la enseñanza de la
Música Popular en los ámbitos académicos orientados a la construcción de un
espacio interdisciplinario que articule las tensiones entre teoría y praxis.
§ Promover la interacción entre pares tendiente a repensar las
prácticas y saberes previos explicitados y no explicitados.
§ Resignificar los marcos conceptuales (epistemológicos, estéticos,
científico-disciplin ares) que orientan explícita o implícitamente el
accionar de los docentes en las carreras de Música Popular.
§ Recopilar a lo largo de la actividad las ponencias, conferencias y
resultados teóricos que contribuyan a la elaboración de un documento en el
cual se expliciten las conclusiones del Congreso.
§ Integrar a los participantes del Congreso en una actividad de
interpretació n de la Música Popular compartida.

*Lugar de realización: *
Área de música de la Universidad Nacional de Villa María,
Campus Universitario, Arturo Jauretche 1555. Villa María.
Tef: (54) (353) 4539103/ 104/ 135
congresomusicapopul ar@yahoo. com.ar <congresomusicapopular@yahoo.com.ar>

Para mayor información consultar el link del Congreso en la página de la
Universidad: www.unvm.edu. ar <http://www.unvm.edu.ar/>

*Temas para las Mesas Temáticas y Redondas: *
1. Paradigmas, teorías, investigaciones, análisis y marcos
referenciales de la Música Popular
2. La necesidad de reconstrucció n de la história no escrita de la Música
Popular.
3. Música Popular y nuevas tecnologías.
4. La formación en interpretació n, improvisación, lenguajes y
perfomance en la Música Popular
. La estructura curricular de los planes de estudio en las carreras con
orientación en la Música Popular.
6. La enseñanza de la composición, versión y arreglos en la Música
Popular

*Fechas y requisitos de presentación:*
Las ponencias se receptarán desde el *1 de abril al 30 de mayo del 2009*.
Durante el mes de junio, el Comité de Lectura evaluará las ponencias
presentadas. Los resultados se darán a conocer, por correo electrónico, el
día 3 de julio de 2009.

En el caso de ponencias que sean el producto de experiencias como docente se
debe detallar el problema presentado y el esbozo o factibilidad de solución
o soluciones posibles. En el caso que sean el producto de investigaciones se
debe consignar el objeto de estudio, marco teórico y las conclusiones a que
se arribó.

Con respecto a las *Mesas Temáticas* en ellas los ponentes presentarán sus
trabajos para luego dar lugar al debate, contarán con un Moderador que será
el encargado de realizar la presentación del tema y de los disertantes, de
moderar en las discusiones planteadas durante las ponencias y de elaborar
las conclusiones de la mesa asignada para exponer al finalizar el Congreso.

Las *Mesas Redondas* contarán con un Moderador y un Secretario de Actas y en
ellas se debatirá libremente en torno a las problemáticas planteadas, luego
de la exposición de los panelistas invitados.

Los interesados deberán presentar el trabajo de la siguiente forma:
1. Título, área temática.
2. Resumen de 100 palabras que será destinado al libro de presentación
del Congreso.
3. Resumen ampliado de la ponencia de 600 palabras que será necesario
para la evaluación del trabajo.
4. Nombre del autor, institución, profesión, dirección postal y
electrónica y currículo de 200 palabras.

La exposición no podrá exceder los 20 minutos de duración incluidos los
ejemplos musicales.
Una vez aprobada su presentación al Congreso los ponentes deberán presentar,
hasta el día 30 de julio, el trabajo completo que podrá tener un máximo de
4000 palabras, incluida la bibliografía, en formato electrónico (por correo
electrónico) para su posterior publicación en formato CD.

Conferences, Conferences, Conferences

One on "Materializing the Subject" from those material anthro folks.
The other on "The Complex," some kind of structure-agency thing. This one's up on the blog of a grad student at NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis named Marisol Lebron. I don't know her, but I'm deep into her hip-hop academician blog, which in a random sampling takes on hip-hoppa Jim Jones' kinda queer video for "pop champagne", the racial politics of the "Arab/A-rab Money" song , and Beyoncé's blanqueamiento.

Anyhow, the conferences:

This conference entitled Materialising the Subject: phenomenological and post-ANT objects in the social sciences provides the opportunity for inter-disciplinary and trans-Atlantic debate about some of the most recent theoretical and methodological moves in sociology, anthropology, geography and philosophy. When considered together these moves reveal multiple approaches to a common theoretical concern - the dissolution of the subject/object distinction ? the corollary of which, across the social sciences, is the "turn to ontology" and the consequent effort to radically rework our understanding of what it is (for humans and non-humans) to constitute a world.

Moving beyond the actor-network as an analytical category, which usefully contests the assumption that humans and non-humans are separate entities and that reality is, therefore, objectively given and revealed by science; post-actor-network theory challenges the tendency to reify the form of the network/object as a stable relational configuration (Latour B. 2005, Law J. and Hassard J. 1999). The move now is to explain the emergence and experience of "things", such as diseases, as the fluid outcome of various, often contested, sets of material practices (Mol A. 2003). These practices are understood to be highly specific, spatially distributed assemblages or enactments (Law J. and Mol A. 2001) that gain their stability from perpetual performance. The analytical category, here, becomes "material practice" with distinct methodological implications and the notion of form shifts away from singularity and towards a multiple configuration of more fragile relational elements.

In a parallel "relational" move in social anthropology, one which unsettles the Euro-American concept of the subject as individual, the material practice of exchange takes centre stage in a theory that explains how certain kinds of objects, like gifts, come to substantiate the specific form of sociality through which personhood is distributed (Strathern M. 1988 and 1991). Such an analysis makes possible comparisons and contrasts between different relational forms and notions of the person that objects come to substantiate among various human collectives (Viveiros de Castro 1998b, 2004). This includes a consideration of the effects of new forms of property arising from innovations in the production of socio-technical, subject/object hybrids such as genetically engineered human cells (Strathern M. 1996, J. Edwards 2005).

Having always done what sociologists of science and technology were just beginning to do in the West, anthropologists were praised by actor-network theorists (B. Latour 1993) for attending, in other parts of the world, to the subject/object hybrids that were constitutive of radically different understandings of human and non-human groupings, relations and capacities. Wishing to bring into existence an "anthropology of the modern world", one which treats the subject/object distinction as the foundational myth of modernity and which undermines, therefore, the objective premises of the asymmetry between "the West and the rest", Bruno Latour makes possible new terms of theoretical engagement for an anthropology which is increasingly "at home". At the same time, however, the link is clear and productive with a post-colonial anthropology coming to terms with the paradox engendered by modernity's loss of confidence and the modernising drive of post-colonial nation states.

Arguably, however, the "turn to ontology" relies, for its novelty, on a conceptualisation of epistemology that makes knowledge the outcome of processes of conscious abstraction, theorisation, formalisation, institutionalisation, representation and interpretation. This risks a reproduction of the dichotomies between "knowing" and "doing" and between "mind" and "body" that have already been challenged in phenomenological theories of embodiment and in models of situated learning in cognitive psychology. Indeed, despite the accusation, at the heart of actor network theory (Latour B. 1993, 1999c, 2005), that phenomenology is inadequate to the task of assembling a radical theory of object-centred-sociality, those of a phenomenological persuasion might argue that the insights of actor-network theory are not new to them (Ihde D. 2003); that the notions of 'intentionality, inter-subjectivity and life-world not only pre-empt the conclusions of the actor network theorists but do so in a way that makes the distinction between ontology and epistemology as untenable as the one between subjects and objects or "the social" and "the world".

Railing against the abstract concepts of the philosophers and seeking a new charter for method in the social sciences, sociologists (Law 2004), anthropologists (Henare A, Holbraad M & Wastell S. 2006) and geographers (Thrift 2007) find, in the ethnographic method what looks like common ground a material practice that is a philosophical one too. Clearly, there are lessons to be learned from conversations, across disciplines, about similar objects of analysis and how these objects are constituted and stabilised as "things", with all kinds of historically specific effects.

The objective of the conference is to provide an advanced forum for five in-conversation style debates between world renowned scholars and to make these live conversations accessible a) to a scholarly audience of 50 in the place where the conversations will happen in February 2009 - at the Manchester Museum ? b) to a wider public via an interactive website on which audio files of the conversations will be posted and c) to a wider scholarly audience via publication of the position papers and transcribed conversations.

Inspired by specific scholarly contributions to existing debate, the five conversations will encompass the following questions/themes for on-going discourse:

After Networks: spatio-temporal analytics.
Does it make any Sense to Say that Objects Have Agency?

Is Phenomenology Really an Albatross?
Skilled Practice: cognition as human-artefact-human orientation system.
Not Networks Per Se, but Distributed Enactments?

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I still think music has a lot to say to this whole object thing...

And the other conference:

Call for Papers: "The Complex" - Princeton University American Studies Graduate Student Conference

The Complex
Princeton University
Program in American Studies Graduate Student Conference
May 2, 2009

The Idea is thus defined as a structure. A structure or an idea is a "complex theme," an internal multiplicity—in other words, a system of multiple, non-localisable connections between different elements which is incarnated in real relations and actual terms.
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition

We got our thing, but it's just part of the big thing.
Zenobia, "Corner Boys," The Wire Season Four



What are the various "complexes" that inform American Studies, and how can American Studies help us understand the strategies and subjects of "the complex"? From entrenched systems of power to the vagaries of psychological fixation, this conference will foster a conversation on the structures, exchanges, and perceptions (or misperceptions) that continue to shape and reshape American Studies. It will also open a space in which the topics, methodologies, and preoccupations of American Studies can begin to interrogate the "complex" as a mode of cultural formation and connectivity (or the lack thereof). Taking interdisciplinarity itself as a topic for discussion, this conference will use the "complex" to explore the possibilities and limitations of both physical and conceptual boundaries.

Keynote Speaker: Asst. Prof. Mark Goble, English Department, University of California, Berkeley

Please submit a 500-word abstract and your c.v. to Lindsay Reckson and Nika Elder at AMSconference@gmail.com by January 15th, 2009. Papers will be due two weeks prior to the conference for circulation, and should be no longer than 15 minutes.

Possible iterations of the complex might include (but are not limited to):
Freudian and Jungian Complexes; the Military-Industrial Complex; the Panopticon; Markets & Circulation; Globalization; Infrastructure; Conspiracy Theory and Surveillance; Stage Sets and Crime Scenes; Publics and Counter-publics; the Academy, the Church, the Factory; Networking & Collaboration; Canons; Semiotics; Obscurantism; Discourse Networks; Circuits; Interfaces; Cyborgs; Media Theory; the Wire; Systems Theory; Grids; Maps and Blueprints; Collections

Any conference that includes a quote from The Wire in the call is OK by me.