"Revolutions in Sound": Keynote Duet

Authors

  • Christine Bacareza Balance Performing & Media Arts (Cornell University)
  • Alexandra Vazquez Performance Studies (New York University)

Abstract

The authors were honoured by the invitation to present a dialogic duet keynote for the Revolutions in Sound conference beautifully imagined by Caitlin Marshall, Patricia Herrera, Marci McMahon, and Iván Ramos. Their collective generosity included not only food, travel and an honorarium but also some much-needed intellectual sustenance: they provided us with several prompts to work with for our remarks. You will find their questions in bold and our respective answers to follow. It was a moving experience of turn-taking in the live, of singing in round, rather than a masterful display of individualistic pontification. We would like to extend our infinite thanks for the organizers’ thoughtful questions and for giving us such rich soil to plant future idea seedlings. For many of us, this was our last moment of being with others before the isolation of the pandemic took hold, and it is partly for this reason we have left our remarks mostly unedited. Here they are published very much as they were delivered in the live so as to record that moment of togetherness and also remind of a polemical mode that is possible when in an actual room with others you can see, hear, and feel. There is thus a palpable sense of safety-in-experimentation in our remarks. 

Author Biographies

Christine Bacareza Balance, Performing & Media Arts (Cornell University)

Christine Bacareza Balance is associate professor of Performing & Media Arts and Asian American Studies at Cornell University and the author of Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America (Duke University Press, 2016).

Alexandra Vazquez, Performance Studies (New York University)

Alexandra T. Vazquez is associate professor of Performance Studies at New York University and the author of Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Duke University Press, 2013).

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Published

2022-05-28

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Ethics of Performance and Scholarship