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the essential contribution of Afro-American music to the sociocultural meaning of the
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Essential Contribution of African-American Music to the sociocultural meaning of the continent.
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The Faculty of Education Sciences of PUCE (Ecuador), the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Esmeraldas (Ecuador), the School of Performing Arts of the University of Ghana (Ghana), the University of the Arts (Ecuador), the Andean University Simón Bolívar (Ecuador), the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Roskilde (Denmark), and the Center for World Music of the University of Hildesheim (Germany) invite you to participate in the Dialogue sessions on Afro-American Music.
In the framework of the launch of the book, published with the title Understanding America, the essential contribution of Afro-American music to the social and cultural understanding of the continent, by the PUCE Publications Center, the dialogue sessions will take place. They are a space for academic and social discussion and thereby positioning the participating entities and the authors in an international context of promotion and dissemination of knowledge.
The Dialogues Sessions will take place on 22nd and 23rd June 2022, for a period of two days, so virtual, through the zoom videoconference platform.
Beginning with a fundamental introduction, which exposes the original and civilizing character of the Afro-descendant population in the American territory, the content is organized in five epistemological areas from which we consider it necessary to approach the understanding of America through its music; they are the following:
From memory, understood as a central element that enables dynamic processes of knowledge and being-in-the world.
From performance and creation, as dialogic spaces of social and cultural resignification.
From narrative (fiction/nonfiction, oral histories, [auto]biographies, symbolic projection, etc.) as a fundamental tool of self-determination of Afro-descendants.
From religion, spirituality and ritual, as essential representation scenarios of Afro-American cultures, which have also allowed the survival of these sound manifestations in American lands since their African origins.
From "reverse" migration to the African continent, a historical process that makes visible the dialogic possibilities of mutual enrichment between cultures through sound practices.
- Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd June, 2022.
- Timetable, from 9:00 am. To 13:00 pm. Ecuador time.
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of the Faculty of Educational Sciences of PUCE.
Agenda
22nd June
- Opening and welcome by the PUCE authorities and representatives of the collaborating universities and entities.
- Book launch.
- Introduction, Dr. John Anton:
– Original and civilizational character of the Afro-descendant
population in the American territory. - Dialogue groups 1 and 2:
– From memory
– From performance and creation
23rd June
- Dialogue groups 3, 4 and 5
– From the narrative
– From religion, spirituality and ritual
– From the “reverse” migration - Closing and farewell
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