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LASP: "Musica Sounds: Indigenous Politics of Recognition in Multicultural Colombia" by Beatriz Goubert

Monday, September 19, 2016 at 12:15pm

Uris Hall, 498
Central Campus

Through an emphasis on the Andean musical practices of the Muisca community, this talk analyzes the conflictive production of an indigenous identity within the indigenous politics of recognition in multicultural Colombia. It includes the questioned legitimacy of the music and of the subjects who produce it. Also, it will also examine the contrast between the wish for an autonomous self-government and the type of indigeneity in multiculturalism which must be sanctioned by government officers and academics to be valid. Finally, it will discuss the self-recognition of indigeneity as an alternative path to becoming Muisca nowadays, which bypasses and somehow undermines the effort of officially-recognized cabildos towards achieving and maintaining legal recognition as indigenous groups entitled to positive rights.

Beatriz Goubert is a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University.

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