The American Music Research Center will host Dr. Daniel Party, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, on Monday, February 2 to present his work on "The uses of Víctor Jara in Chilean Social Movements (2009-2019)." As has been widely noted, the Chilean social uprising of October 2019 had as an unofficial anthem Víctor Jara’s song “El derecho de vivir en paz.” To help clarify the significance of this gesture, Dr. Party will trace in his presentation the ways in which Jara and his music have been used in Chile since 2009.
This free and public talk will take place at 2 pm in CASE E351 on CU Boulder campus and will kick-off this semester's Musicology & Music Theory Colloquium Series, a College of Music semester-long tradition that offers students, faculty, other CU campus departments, and the public a unique opportunity to meet and hear from some of the leading national and international researchers in music theory and ethnomusicology, including topics in Western, African, Japanese, Latin American, American Indian, and Euro-American musics.
Daniel Party hails from the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a Ph.D in music history and is now Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is a popular music scholar whoes main research interest is music under dictatorship, particularly under Pinochet's Chile and Franco's Spain. Dr. Party says, "While most research on popular music and dictatorship deals with either state-sponsored music or protest songs, mine focuses on mainstream musics and musicians that remained detached from party politics."
He is also interested in U.S. Latino music and migration and in gender studies. He was Associate Professor at Saint Mary's College, a visiting Professor at Tulane University, University of Oregon, Brown University, University of Georgia and has a long list of publications, fellowships, awards, grants and invited guest lectures and workships which are detailed here.
We are excited to welcome Dr. Party to campus and hope you can join us for his presentation!