On Music and Political Concerns: An Interview with Hilda Paredes

Velasco-Pufleau, Luis; Paredes, Hilda (2020). On Music and Political Concerns: An Interview with Hilda Paredes. Revista Vórtex, 8(2), pp. 1-22. Universidade Estadual do Paraná 10.33871/23179937.2020.8.2.16

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In this interview, the Mexican composer Hilda Paredes talks about the political and ethical concerns which are involved in her music. She shares her thoughts about the relationship between her music and contemporary Mexican indigenous poetry, the connexion between gender issues and social justice, the burden of racism, the embodied experience of violence, the destruction of language, and the relationship her creative process has with environmental concerns. We discuss these issues in relation to several of her works, in particular Kamex ch’ab (2010), El Palacio imaginado (2003), La tierra de la miel (2013), Harriet (2018) and Rainy days (2019). The result is an exploration of how she tackles in each work these issues by constructing networks of events, places and people.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Musicology
06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Network (IRN)
06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg)

UniBE Contributor:

Velasco Pufleau, Luis Alberto

Subjects:

700 Arts > 780 Music

ISSN:

2317-9937

Publisher:

Universidade Estadual do Paraná

Funders:

[4] Swiss National Science Foundation

Projects:

[1368] Political Ontologies of Music: Rethinking the Relationship between Music and Politics in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Official URL

Language:

English

Submitter:

Luis Alberto Velasco Pufleau

Date Deposited:

28 Oct 2020 16:02

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:40

Publisher DOI:

10.33871/23179937.2020.8.2.16

Related URLs:

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Mexican indigenous poetry, Music and politics, feminism, postcolonialism, music composition, Mexico, Hilda Paredes, Harriet Tubman

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.146908

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/146908

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