Music and Human Rights: Exploring New Relationships between Music and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

Velasco-Pufleau, Luis (13 November 2022). Music and Human Rights: Exploring New Relationships between Music and Politics in the Twenty-First Century (Unpublished). In: 2022 AMS-SEM-SMT Joint Annual Meeting. New Orleans. 10-13 November 2022.

How can music composition engage with violations of human rights in the twenty-first century? What are the political implications and ethical concerns of exploring femicide, human trafficking and the collective memory of organized violence? This paper explores these questions through the analysis of two works by Mexican women composers: the chamber opera La tierra de la miel (The Land of Honey, 2013) by Hilda Paredes (b. 1957) and the orchestral work XLIII Memoriam Vivere (2015) by Marisol Jiménez (b. 1978). In their musical works, Paredes and Jiménez explore stories of violations of human rights in Mexico. La tierra de la miel is based on the story of indigenous Mexican women victims of a human trafficking network between Mexico and the United States. XLIII Memoriam Vivere refers to the story of the forty-three students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ college that were forcibly abducted and disappeared in Iguala (Mexico) in 2014. Based on music analyses and several interviews with both Hilda Paredes and Marisol Jiménez, this paper examines the compositional strategies and ethical concerns of these two Mexican composers in order to open new research avenues on the relationship between music and politics in the twenty-first century. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how composers engage critically with the major ethical and political challenges facing our societies.

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