Growing list of presenters for our Fandango conference Week by week, the list of prospective presenters for our upcoming conference on the fandango grows. As we announced previously, Elisabeth LeGuin will be our keynote speaker, and we have several new confirmed speakers. Below is the full list of those invited to attend and the titles of their papers. Abstracts to follow. Our CFP is now closed. The final program of presentations will be available in spring 2015. Keynote Speaker Elisabeth Le Guin Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music, UCLA “Tonadilla and Fandango: How a Genre and a Practice Intersect and Diverge” Presenters Thomas Baird Bruno Barta Sociologist and Doctoral Candidate in Ethnomusicology Son Jarocho in New York: Jarana and fandango as symbols of a new Mexican identity” Miguel Ángel Berlanga Profesor Titular, Música, Universidad de Granada “The Fandangos of Southern Spain in the Context of other Spanish and American Fandangos” Francisco Bethencourt Llobet Associate Professor, Musicology, Universidad Computense de Madrid Tóca por Fandangos!: towards a cultural and ethnomusicological approach to Fandango(s) in Contemporary Flamenco” Guillermo Castro Buendia Musicologist specializing in flamenco “Rhythmic evolution in the Spanish fandango: Binary and ternary rhythms.” Claudia Calderón Saenz pianollanero.com; Fundación Editorial Arpamérica “Musical Aspects of the Joropo in Colombia and Venezuela” Ishtar Cardona “Crossing borders: the practice of Son Jarocho facing its own limits.” Lou Charnon-Deutsch Professor, Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University “‘Like Salamanders in a Flame’ The Early European Love Affair with the Fandango” Alex E. Chavez Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame “Vaivenes, del Cuerpo al Verso: On the Expressive and Political Anatomy of the New Years Eve Topada in Xichú, Guanajuato” Loren Chuse Independent Scholar Walter Clark Professor of Musicology, University of California, Riverside “The Malagueñas of Breva, Albéniz, and Lecuona: From Regional Fandango to Global Pop Tune” Tony Dumas Visiting Assistant Professor, Music, SUNY Brockport Presenting on flamenco in diaspora. Reynaldo Fernández Manzano Director del Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía, Presidente de la Asociación Española de Documentación Musical (AEDOM) “The Fandango as Improvised Music and Poetry: the Trovo of Alpujarra” Rafael Figueroa Hernández Investigador del Centro de Estudios de la Cultura y la Comunicación de la Universidad Veracruzana “Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán: Contemporary sociopolitical uses of fandango and son jarocho” Nubia Florez Forero Universidad Del Atlántico – (Avalado), CEDINEP “The Fandango as a Space of Resistance, Creativity, and Liberty” Hazel Franco Coordinator of the B.A. in Dance and the Dance and Dance Education Certificate programme at the Department of Creative and Festival Arts, The University of the West Indies Presenting on the carnival traditions in Trinidad and Tobago folk dances Matteo Giuggioli Zurich University Institute of Musicology “Luigi Boccherini’s ‘Afandangado’ Quintets: Sound, Form and Plot” Theresa Goldbach Doctoral candidate in Dance, University of California, Riverside “Fandango in the Franco Era: the Politics of Classification” K.Meira Goldberg Martha Gonzalez Assistant Professor of Chicano Studies, Scripps College Sonic (Trans)Migration: Rhythmic Intention in Zapateado Jessica Gottfried Independent Scholar “The fandango as fiesta and the fandango within the fiesta: tarima, cante and dance “ Gabriela Granados American Bolero Dance Company Michelle Habell-Pallán Associate Professor, Department of Gender, Women & Sexualilty Studies. Director, UW Libraries Women Who Rock Oral History Archives. University of Washington. “Women Who Rock the Fandango: Lessons in Convivencia” Nancy G. Heller Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History, University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) “Spanish and Hispanic American Depictions of Dancing in El velorio del angelito.” José Miguel Hernández Jaramillo Researcher, Universidad de Sevilla; doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology, Escuela Nacional de Música de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. “The fandango in nineteenth century flamenco.” Claudia Jeschke University Professor Doctor, Dance Studies, University of Salzburg; Director, Derra de Moroda Dance Archives at the University of Salzberg “Les Choses Espagnoles: Research into the Hispanomania of 19the Century Dance” Javier Jiménez Belmonte Associate Professor of Spanish, Chair, Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University “Fandangomania: proceso al fandango” Alan Jones “In Search of the Fandango” Adam Kent Instructor, Manhattan School of Music; Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College. “Enrique Granados’s Fandango del Candil and Manuel de Falla’s Danza de la Molinera” Michael Malkiewicz Salzburg Ceci n’est pas un fandango Peter Manuel Professor, Music Department, CUNY Graduate Center “The Fandango as a Family of Musical Forms in the Afro-Hispanic Atlantic.” Gabriela Mendoza García Independent Scholar “Envisioning the Nation through Dance – the Teaching and Performance of the Jarabe Tapatío in 1920s and 1930s Mexico within the Educational System” Alfonso Mogaburo Cid Cantaor de flamenco, Dientes de Caramelo “Republicanismo, Revolución y Temática Política en las Letras del Fandango” John Moore Muir College “Cante Libre is not free – contrasting approaches to fandangos personales“ Kiko Mora Universidad de Alicante “An Introduction to Popular Spanish Music in the USA in the Nineteenth Century” Paul D. Naish, Ph.D. Substitute Assistant Professor of Social Science and History, Guttman Community College, CUNY “The Revels of a Young Republic: Revolutionary Possibilities of the Fandango in Timothy Flint’s 1826 Francis Berrian” Faustino Nuñez Musicologist y catedrático de flamenco en el Conservatorio Superior de Córdoba “La música y el Atlántico, variaciones sobre el fandango antiguo y el modern” Erica Ocegueda PhD student in Theater and Performance of the Americas, Arizona State University “Frozen Footwork: Folklórico Falters Following Fandangos Footsteps” Álvaro Ochoa Serrano Profesor-Investigador en el Centro de Estudios de las Tradiciones de El Colegio de Michoacán, Director, “Personajes y tradiciones populares del Occidente de México.” “Mitotl, Fandango y Mariache o Mariachi, un espacio de fiesta común” Raquel Paraiso Independent Scholar “Re-contextualizing Traditions and the Construction of Social Identities through Music and Dance: un fandango en Huetamo, Michoacán” Allan de Paula Oliveira Professor of Social Sciences, West Parana State University (UNIOESTE) “Brazilian Fandango: traditionalism, identity and policies of cultural heritage” Ricardo Pérez Montfort Centro de Investigacione y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) “The Fandango as a Manifestation of the Circulation of Culture between Mexico and the Caribbean” Aurèlia Pessarrodona Centro Studi sul Settecento Spagnolo – Università degli Studi di Bologna “El gesto coréutico en la música ibérica de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII: una propuesta de interpretación históricamente informada del fandango” Wilfried Raussert Bielefeld University, Center for InterAmerican Studies “‘When Fandango Hits the Border, When Music Comes to Town’: Mobilizing Music, Participatory Cultures, and Translocational Community-Building in the 21st century” Lénica Reyes Zúñiga Doctoral candidate, Escuela Nacional de Música, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México “Musical relations between Spanish malagueña and fandango in the nineteenth century” María José Ruiz Mayordomo Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Compañía de Danza “Esquivel”) and Aurèlia Pessarrodona (Centro Studi sul Settecento Spagnolo – Università degli Studi di Bologna) “Choreological Gestures in Iberian Music of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: a Proposal for Historically Informed Interpretation of the Fandango” Lénica Reyes Zúñiga Doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology, Escuela Nacional de Música de la UNAM “Musical relations between Spanish malagueña and fandango in the nineteenth century” Craig Russell Professor of Music, California Polytechnic State University “The Fandango in the music of Murcia and Mozart: a Prism of Revolution in the Enlightenment” Ramón Soler Díaz Professor of Mathematics and flamencologist “The Fandango in Málaga: From Danced Cante to Desgarrado Cante” Estela Zatania Editor, deflamenco.com “The Physical Forms and Cloaked Politics of Flamenco Fandangos” Brook Zern Flamencoexperience.com Presenting on flamenco fandangos.