Hombres de Maïz Musical syncretism in the Latin American tradition
Responsable(s)
Équipe
Partenaires
Alfonso Arrivillaga, Universidad San Carlo de Guatemala
Edwin Claros Arispe, Universidad Catolica Boliviana
Raquel Maldonado, Instituto Superlor de Musica de San Ignacio de Moxos
Date de début: 2020
Présentation du projet
Hombres de Maïz: musical syncretism in the Latin American tradition is the project aimed at closing a cycle of research activities that has unfolded over 15 years at the HEM in Geneva. The goal being to build an interdisciplinary method that combines musical philology, the history of cultures, ethnomusicology, and practical experimentation, by providing subjects to think about to researchers and musicians (particularly experts on music of the past) around the implications that connect types of music to the cultures that created them.
Both in the research into the historical sources and the interpretation of them on both sides of the Atlantic, and in the practical application work on the ground, this project will concentrate on the process of appropriation, by the peoples of Latin America, of musical forms and instruments originating in Europe, of their integration into the process, which led, after the “Conquista” and the dissolution of their world, to the creation of an autonomous musical language, a primary element of collective communication, and attests to the reconstruction of a social fibre and shared values. In summary, how an historical, social, artistic and cultural phenomenon of such magnitude is destined to be read in a different way each time, because each society is only able to give to music - to its own forms of music and to those of others - the meaning that is specific to its own time, to its vision of the world, and to its self-perception.
Lecture live from Guatemala on 26, 27 and 28 October 2021 - here
Concert scheduled for 24 June 2022 in Geneva - here
