Maquinical Ensembles in Fugue:

feminisms and performativity in two Andean music groups from Argentina

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Abstract

In this article we describe and comparatively analyze the performances of two community Andean music ensembles that represent two regions of Argentina with contrasting characteristics, and that constitute the two most important referents of groups of women and dissidents in Argentina. In this opportunity, we will focus on the performative practices of the women's Band from Tilcara Nuestra Señora de Fátima, Jujuy, and the Mama Quilla Community, from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. The objective is to understand the relationship between the experience-in-the-world understood as a projection oriented towards a cosmogony with Andean roots and the aesthetic-political qualities that reinstate the question of the scope of dissident feminism to produce other modes of action and political consciousness.

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Adil Podhajcer, Universidad de Buenos Aires – UBA

Adil Podhajcer holds a BA and PhD in Anthropological Sciences from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. She has specialized in anthropology of music, religion and visual languages, her doctoral thesis consisted in analyzing the socioreligious and community practices of Andean music in the city of Buenos Aires. Currently, she is a researcher of the Equipo de Antropología del Cuerpo y la Performance y de la Red de Investigación de y desde los cuerpos, where she works on new methodologies of performanceresearch/creation, incorporating the ritual and political dimension on her collaborative ethnographies, in connection with sacred, sonorous and visual materialities. In this sense, she co-coordinates networks with indigenous communities, migrants and governmental institutions. She is a regular professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires y la Universidad Nacional de Avellaneda. 

Alejandra Vega, Universidad de Buenos Aires - UBA

Alejandra Vega holds a BA in Folklore with a specialty in Traditional Instruments from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) and a Master's degree in Culture and Society from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes. She is a musician, researcher and assistant professor at the Folklore Department of the UNA, Director of the PIACyT project Las prácticas de canto colectivo tradicional en la construcción de identidades y redes de reciprocidad entre mujeres del NOA. Los Jueves de comadres from 2020 to date. In the area of ethnomusicology, she researches the music of Bolivian migrants and sikus bands of Buenos Aires since 2003 with special interest in and narratives of women sikuris. In 2011 she began her ethnography with sikus bands in the pilgrimage of the Virgin of Copacabana from the Abra de Punta Corral, Jujuy, Argentina, focusing mainly on women's bands.

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2024-06-09

How to Cite

Podhajcer, A., & Vega, A. (2024). Maquinical Ensembles in Fugue:: feminisms and performativity in two Andean music groups from Argentina. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 14(3). Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/138732

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Vol. 14 No. 3 (2024): Jul./Set. 2024

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Performance and Gender II

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