Lecture by Juan Pablo González:
The Making of a Social History of Popular Music:
Problems, Methods, and Results from a Case Study in Chile
Wednesday November 10, 2:30 p.m.
Sweeney Hall, Simon Building
School of Music, Indiana University
This lecture considers strategies towards developing popular music studies in musicology, a discipline that is just recently beginning to incorporate the study of music in mass media. Professor González seeks to develop an ethnographical study of the past, considering the way popular music was performed in relation to social practices. The construction of meaning through the intermixing of local and foreign repertoires is considered as well as narratives and the strategies used by the media to commodify popular music.
The lecture will discuss the variety of sources available to perform and study popular music from early 20th century; how to reconstruct performing practices of old popular music within in a conservative environment; and how to work inter-professionally with the music industry.
Juan Pablo González's research, Historia Social de la Música Popular en Chile, 1890-1950, was awarded the IX Casa de las Américas Prize, Cuba, 2003. His lecture will summarize the contents of this award-winning research, including ways popular music articulates local and national identities, and how it played a role in the modernization and democratization of Chilean society.
Dr. Juan Pablo González (Ph.D. UCLA, 1991) is full-time professor at the Instituto de Música, Universidad Católica de Chile, and president of the Latin American branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (www.iaspm.net/iaspm). He has published more than thirty articles in musicological journals, and presented forty papers in conferences in Latin America, the USA, and Europe. He has contributed to a renewal of graduate and undergraduate musicological training in Chile, and taught university seminars in Latin America and Spain. González has developed interdisciplinary projects with historians and sociologists, and inter-professional projects with the recording industry, radio, television, and author societies. He has participated as a guitarist and composer in nueva canción groups in Santiago, Chile, and Los Angeles, California.
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