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SUMMARY:From Valentino to Viagra: tango\, representation and musical Latin
 americanism - Dr. Melanie Plesch\, Senior Lecturer in Musicology\, The Uni
 versity of Melbourne 
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DESCRIPTION:This paper offers a critical perspective on mainstream constru
 ctions of Latin American music using as a case study representations of ta
 ngo dancing in mainstream film and advertising. Through an examination of 
 an extensive corpus\, it identifies a series of tropes of representation\,
  which are tentatively labelled danger\, erotic-exotic\, irrationality\, e
 xcess\, and homogeneity. The trope of homogeneity is explored in depth\, f
 rom Rex Ingram’s The four horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) to the TV co
 mmercial Tango (Viva Viagra!) of 2009. Using an interpretive framework der
 ived from postcolonial theory\, it proposes that Western discourses on Lat
 in American music constitute a discursive formation —“musical Latiname
 ricanism”—and makes a call for its scholarly study.\nMelanie Plesch is
  an Argentine musicologist now based at The University of Melbourne (Austr
 alia)\, where she is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology. Her work focuses on 
 the intersections of music\, politics and society\, with particular emphas
 is on the relationship between music and the construction of national iden
 tity in Argentina. An award-winning lecturer\, in 2014 she was recognised 
 by the Australian government with a National Citation for Outstanding Cont
 ribution to Student Learning. She is currently a Research Visitor at the F
 aculty of Music\, University of Oxford\, in the context of the Balzan Prog
 ramme in Musicology “Towards a Global History of Music” (dir. Reinhard
  Strohm).
LOCATION:Faculty of Music\, Lecture Room 3
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