Music Network: Presentations from Sergio Sorcia Reyes & Nancy Katingima Day

Very excited to share details of a special forthcoming session for the Music Network: two of our members have recently reached that brilliant milestone of having submitted their PhD theses.  This session will include a short presentation from each on their research followed by discussion – and we will also be sending them very good wishes for their vivas.  Please do join us to hear about this exciting research and to support them if you can:

Sergio Sorcia Reyes: The Music Ecology of Narcocorridos in Mexico's Everyday Life

This research was a qualitative study of the role of narcocorridos music in the everyday life of young people in Mexico. In this session, I will explain how I used a patchwork and multi-sited ethnography for studying multiple forms of engagement in public spaces. I will also speak about the ways in which this controversial music is used to produce a particular type of atmospheres that frame certain dispositions for collective action.

Nancy Katingima Day: Towards a Philosophy of Music Education in Contemporary Kenya

Much as music is argued to be a universal language, its realisation and understanding can also be highly contextualised.  This thesis responds to the need to approach music and its education through the eyes of a theoretical framework called Utu.  I will tease out what the framework offers regarding music and education in Kenya, and offer new ways of approaching and understanding these areas both locally and internationally.

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