Event overview
'ZZK Records and Digital Cumbia/Folklore in Buenos Aires'
Geoff works on Latin American popular music, and he has a particular interest in contemporary urban music, above all in Cuba.
Dr Baker describes how Buenos Aires has emerged in the last fifteen years as a major centre of electronic dance music in Latin America, and how the city has been at the heart of the creation of new styles that reinvent traditional Latin American genres with the aid of digital technology – first electro-tango and, more recently, digital cumbia.
He is currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has begun work on his part of a broader project entitled “Music, Digitization, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies.”
This research programme, based at the Faculty of Music at Oxford University and led by Professor Georgina Born, is examining the changes to music and musical practices afforded by digitization and digital media. He is focusing on the digital cumbia scene in Buenos Aires, in particular the label ZZK Records. He will be seconded to this project until September 2013.
All welcome, not just for graduates!
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 24 Jan 2012 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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