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International Conference on Analysing Popular Music

charangasue — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:58:25 +0000

Popmac at Liverpool University

I’m presenting a paper on clave feel in Latin improvisation at this conference 2-4 July:

The conference will take place 2-4 July, 2013 and will include three distinguished keynote speakers:

Anne Danielsen (University of Oslo)
Walter Everett (University of Michigan)
Allan Moore (University of Surrey).

Conference Chairman: Michael Spitzer

Committee:

Nicola Dibben
Dai Griffiths
Tim Hughes
Freya Jarman
Nick Reyland
Kenneth Smith
Rob Strachan

IASPM in Spain

charangasue — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:50:30 +0000

http://iaspm2013.espora.es/

Keynote speakers

Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh)

Rock sociologist and one of the pioneers of Popular Music studies, Simon Frith was one of the founding members of IASPM in 1981. He has written extensively on the subject of popular music and among his books are The Sociology of rock (1978), Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop (1988) and Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music (1996). He has also participated as editor in several works, such as On Record: Rock, Pop & the Written Word (1990), Sound and Vision: Music Video Reader (1993) and The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (2001). Simon Frith is currently developing a history of music in the United Kingdom to be published by Ashgate. He has been a rock critic for Village Voice and The Sunday Times, and has been a lecturer at the University of Warwick, Strathclyde University, University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh.

Bruce Johnson (Macquarie University)

Bruce Johnson is a specialist in popular music and cultural studies and works specifically on the history of jazz and its diaspora. He has published The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz (1987) and The Inaudible Music: Jazz, Gender and Australian Modernity (2000), and Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence (2008) with Martin Cloonan the book . He has also made several TV documentaries about jazz and has been a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, the University of Turku and the University of New South Wales.

Sara Cohen (University of Liverpool)

Sara Cohen is a music professor at the University of Liverpool and director of the Institute of Popular Music. Sara Cohen’s research explores the relationship between music and urban space. She has published Rock Culture in Liverpool: Popular Music in the Making (1991) and Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture: Beyond the Beatles (2007). She has developed several research projects on ethnographic approaches to music and on Popular Music and is a member of the advisory boards of Popular Music and Ethnomusicology Forum.

Francisco Cruces (UNED)

A specialist in musical anthropology and in the study of popular music in the urban environment, Francisco Cruces was one of the first researchers in the field of popular music in Spain. He has co-written Rituales y proceso social (1991), La ciudad emergente (1994), Las culturas musicales (2001), La sonrisa de la institución (2006), Símbolos en la ciudad. Lecturas de antropología urbana (2006) and Textos de antropología contemporánea (2010). He has been a lecturer at the University of Salamanca and at the UNAM, in Mexico, and has developed several research projects about musical anthropology.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World

Johnathan kendall — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:27:53 +0000

I have two entries on Cuban son and guajira in this excellent new book edited by David Horn. You can order a copy from Amazon (link below)

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World

The six EPMOW Genre volumes contain entries on the genres of music that have been or currently are popular in countries and communities all over the world. Included are discussions on cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of voice; lyrics and language; typical features of performance and presentation; historical development and paths and modes of dissemination; influence of technology, the music industry and political and economic circumstances; changing stylistic features; notable and influential performers; and relationships to other genres and sub-genres. This volume, on the music of the Caribbean and Latin America, features over 200 entries and in-depth essays on genres ranging from Afro-Cuban Jazz to Alcatraz, from Carnaval to Charanga, and from Dancehall to Dub. All entries conclude with a bibliography, discographical references and discography, with additional information on sheet music listings and visual recordings. Written and edited by a team of distinguished popular music scholars and professionals, this is an exceptional resource for anybody studying or researching the history and development of popular music.

My Paper on Charanga del Norte in a special issue of the Journal of European Popular Culture

charangasue — Wed, 29 May 2013 18:26:47 +0000

Downloadable from here: Journal of European Popular Culture

Perceptions of authenticity in the performance of Cuban popular music in the United Kingdom: ‘Globalized incuriosity’ in the promotion and reception of uK-based Charanga del Norte’s music since 1998

Authors: Sue Miller
DOI: 10.1386/jepc.4.1.99_1

Since its inception, my band has featured musicians from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Additionally, Charanga del Norte features more female musicians than most UK Latin bands. As I show, most promoters marketing the group have tended towards exoticization, using essentialized images of Latin culture, with an emphasis on not just the Cuban but all the Latin American members of the band. This meant the group was originally promoted as a northern UK-based salsa band, although audiences and promoters gradually became more aware of other forms of traditional Cuban music as a result of the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon. Promotion of us at World Music events has taken a slightly different stance and focussed more on publicizing the African roots of our ‘Afro-Cuban’ music

FREE Latin Fiesta in Cambridge this Thursday 30 May Anglia Ruskin University

charangasue — Mon, 27 May 2013 23:29:04 +0000

Latin Fiesta@The Academy, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road CB1 1PT

Brazilian Samba, Cuban Son and Salsa

Thursday 30 May 9.15pm til late

FREE GIG, SAMBA WORKSHOP, SALSA DANCE CLASS AND DJ

Try your hand at samba percussion or dance with a free workshop led by Raz Jayasuriya from One Voice Music, watch a salsa dance demo or have a go at salsa dancing with a free taster class from Andrea from the Latin Music Collective, enjoy ARU’s new Cuban Music Big Band led by Charanga del Norte’s director Sue Miller and finally listen and dance to live percussion impro and ‘Latin’ music DJ-ing – all for free!

Latin DJ with live percussion til late

Bar until midnight

Raz Jayasuriya leading a samba band at the Rhythms of the World Festival

Charanga del Norte gig 8 February Cambridge

Johnathan kendall — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:27:53 +0000

STOP PRESS

CHARANGA DEL NORTE BACK GIGGING IN 2013

Starting with a FREE LUNCHTIME gig at the Mumford Theatre, East Road in Cambridge.

CHARANGA DEL NORTE

Charanga del Norte perform at the Mumford Theatre on Friday 8 February @1pm

1.10 pm, Mumford Theatre, Cambridge
Charanga del Norte

Venue information form the following link:

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/alss/deps/mpa/events/lunchtime_concerts.html#feb

New Music Track from Trombanga’s Gig at Instituto Cervantes

charangasue — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 08:46:01 +0000

La Flauta de Susan trombanga 29 Feb cervantes flute &timbal

Here’s an on- stage live recording from my Edirol recorder of me and Jack soloing together at our Instituto Cervantes gig in Manchester on 29 February – just click on the orange arrow to hear us in action!

Shoot you sir?

Estrellas Cubanas perform Amalia Batista

charangasue — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:20:38 +0000

Estrellas Cubanas performed the Danzon Amalia Batista by Rodrigo Prats at the Danzon Festival in Havana in 2007 – do contact me if you’re interested in promoting an exchange project between Estrellas Cubanas and Charanga del Norte. I have worked with members of Estrellas Cubanas and am particularly interested in getting the singers and percussionists to perform with Charanga del Norte in Havana and also on tour. As these veteran Charanga players are over sixty it would be nice to do a collaborative project sooner rather than later!

Charanga del Norte gigs 2013

charangasue — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:25:47 +0000

Charanga del Norte will be resuming gigging in 2013 as the bandleader is relocating to Cambridge meantime here’s some video of the band performing live at the Civic.

New York SOB Gig June 1st

charangasue — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:58:02 +0000

I played SOBs on 1st June with the lovely Charanga Soleil!

SOB’s presents Afterwork Salsa Groove with

NYC’s All-Star International Band

CHARANGA SOLEIL

featuring Special Guest

SUE MILLER, Flute

(Charanga del Norte, UK)

Friday, June 1, 2012

S.O.B.’S

204 Varick St. (at W. Houston St.)

New York, NY 10014

212.243.4940 * www.sobs.com

Doors 5pm * Sets at 8pm & 10pm

Happy Hour 5-7pm (Cocktail Seating available)

7pm Free Salsa Dance Lesson

Admission: Ladies Free/Men $10 before 7pm

$15 General Admission for All after 7pm

We’re thrilled to invite you to SOB’s After-Work Salsa Groove on Friday, June 1, 2012.

For this all-Salsa show, the band will cook up an irresistible stew of Caribbean and South American classics. Be prepared for a night of musical bliss and non-stop dancing with two full sets of sultry, scintillating selections of salsa caliente y picante!

Performing will be: Cathy Lopez and Goussy Celestin (lead vocals); Hadar Noiberg (flute, vocals, musical director); Lewis Kahn (violin, trombone); Junior Rivera (tres, vocals); William Ash (bass); Sergio Rivera (piano); John Berdeguer (percussion, vocals) and Diego Lopez (drums, timbales).

As an extra-special treat, the band will be joined by the exceptional flutist SUE MILLER bandleader of Charanga del Norte out of Leeds, England!

So get your June started on the right foot (or the left). Pa’ que gozen!!! Enjoy!!!

Links:

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CharangaSoleil

Band Page: https://www.reverbnation.com/charangasoleil