¡Maldito Coronavirus! - Mapping Latin American Musical Responses to the Pandemic Moment - Daniel S. Margolies

¡Maldito Coronavirus! - Mapping Latin American Musical Responses to the Pandemic Moment - Daniel S. Margolies

Maldita Pandemia

¡Maldito Coronavirus! - Mapping Latin American Musical Responses to the Pandemic Moment - Daniel S. Margolies

Daniel S. Margolies [+-]
Festival of Texas Fiddling Sonté-New Orleans
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Daniel S. Margolies, Ph.D, is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Festival of Texas Fiddling and a Director at Sonté in New Orleans, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting musical interventions for wellbeing. Margolies runs Zarza Records, which releases new recordings of traditional music and historical reissues, and produces the Tejano Conjunto Festival en San Antonio. He has written dozens of articles and book chapters on musical and historical topics and has written or edited four other books, including Spaces of Law in American Foreign Relations: Extradition and Extraterritoriality in the Borderlands and Beyond, 1877–1898 (2011). More information at DanMargolies.com.
J.A. Strub [+-]
University of Texas, Austin
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J.A. Strub is a researcher, performer, and multimedia producer. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics and statistics from Hunter College, CUNY and is completing a PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include music and participatory social life, user-generated platform media, and the role of improvisation and creative agency in musical performance. His work has been supported by the United States Department of Education, the Tinker Foundation, Humanities Texas, and the Rainwater Foundation, among others. More information at JA-Strub.com.

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This chapter surveys the wide array of affective responses to the pandemic found throughout música del coronavirus. It begins by considering the specific material impacts of COVID-19 on professional musicians in the region, with an exploration of venue closures, performance cancellations, and the hospitalizations and virus-related deaths of notable Latin American musicians. It goes on to examine the ways in which lyrics, performance styles, and approaches to content distribution articulated different attitudes about the pandemic situation. This chapter explores how expressions of pandemic era fear, anxiety, and frustration became linked to broader cultural attitudes toward death, fate, and individual agency. It also looks at some of the more unusual affective treatments of the pandemic in the form of coronavirus drinking songs, hyper-sexualized quarantine dance videos, and songs that express doubt about the severity of the pandemic and the veracity of public health reporting in covid and in the vaccine movement. Finally, it considers examples of Christian messaging in música del coronavirus, and how this genre recapitulated many aspects of other musical examples alongside spiritual reinterpretation of themes of sin, judgment, and life after death in a time of pandemic.

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Margolies, Daniel; Strub, J.A.. Maldita Pandemia. ¡Maldito Coronavirus! - Mapping Latin American Musical Responses to the Pandemic Moment. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. May 2024. ISBN 9781800503977. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=43041. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.43041. May 2024

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