Speaker(s):

Ian Mursell | talks | www
Peter Cloudsley | talks
Emily Walmsley | talks
Jose Alberto Salgado e Silva | talks
Gabriela Maurino | talks

Date and Time:

22 May 2004 at 10:00 am

Duration:

Full Day

Venue:

Library, Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)
35 Tavistock Square
London
WC1 9HA
+44 20 78 62 85 01
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ilas/library.htm
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Organised by:

Institute for the Study of the Americas, Royal Holloway
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Tickets:

£3.50

Available from:

We ask for this contribution towards, coffee, tea and lunch, unless you are giving a paper. Please send cheques by 19th May to:

Henry Stobart, Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX.

h.stobart@rhul.ac.uk

Additional Information:

Please contact Henry Stobart if you would like to be included on the mailing list, or if you wish to offer a presentation or to perform at a future seminar.

Full programme:

10.15am: Coffee

10.40: Welcome

10.45: Ian Mursell (Mexicolore: teaching team on Mexico and the Aztecs)
The Instruments of the Aztecs: Exploring the Codices

11.30: Peter Cloudsley (Centro de Ethnomusicología Andina, Universidad Catolica, Lima)
Carnival revisited after 20 years: Andean culture in the face of violence, TV and road building.

12.15: Emily Walmsley (University of Manchester)
‘Llevando el ritmo en la sangre’: Dance and the embodiment of blackness in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

1.00: Lunch (sandwiches provided)

2.15: José Alberto Salgado e Silva (Universidade do Rio de Janeiro-UniRio/Institute of Education-University of London)
Samba in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro: aspects of current practice.

3.00: Gabriela Mauriño (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘My Tango is not for Dancing’: the role of the body in Piazzolla’s New Tango.

3.45: Tea and informal music making.