The next seminar in the Centre for Transnational Studies seminar series will be given by Professor Carmen Bernand, Université Paris-X on ‘The Making of Latin American Music: Passion & Subversion’. Please join us on Wednesday 11 December 2013, 5.00pm-6.30pm in Building 65/1145.

The Making of Latin American Music: Passion & Subversion 

 Professor Carmen Bernand, Université Paris-X

The Americas may be rightly proud of two of the most important forms of modern 20^th-century music: jazz and latin.  But before the invention of jazz bands and salsas, a new music emerged from the European, Indian and African traditions at the beginning of the 16^th-century in ‘The First America’ (Hispanic dominions and Brazil), until sound reproduction changes the diffusion and the reception of popular music.  Songs, melodies, dance, and public exhibitions, with their own heroes (rogues, prostitutes, bandits and revolutionaries) and their ideals of sex, love and freedom, tell us a story very different from the official one. Some examples will be given, followed by some musical excerpts.