Webinar, 14.11.2022: Dr Fiorella Montero-Diaz “Sounding a Queer Rebellion. LGBTI Musical Resistances in Lima, Peru”

Dr Fiorella Montero-Diaz - “Sounding a Queer Rebellion. LGBTI Musical Resistances in Lima, Peru”

You are invited to a webinar with Dr Fiorella Montero-Diaz (Keele) who will present on music in queer activism in Peru.

Date/Time: Monday 14th November, 4-5.30pm Central European Time (CET)
Please register your attendance in advance here.

“Sounding a Queer Rebellion. LGBTI Musical Resistances in Lima, Peru”
This talk focuses on the relationship between sex/gender diversity and Peruvian popular music within emerging LGBTI scenes, where artivism opens spaces for masculinities and femininities that transgress traditional gender imaginaries. Through direct testimonies from LGBTI artists and a section of their followers, I will discuss subversion, innovation, visibility, resistance and artivism in the contemporary LGBTI scene, documenting the meaning and impact of music especially within Lima’s transgender community.

The presentation is hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and will be moderated by Dr Thomas R. Hilder.

Bio:  Fiorella Montero-Diaz is head of the department of music and Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at Keele University, UK. She specializes in urban hybrid music, and the use of music as a social nexus in post-conflict contexts, with an emphasis on youth identity, upper classes and whiteness. She has published ethnomusicological articles in specialised magazines and books such as Ethnomusicology Forum, Musiké, Popular Music and Anthropologica, among others. Currently, thanks to a Global Challenges Research Fund grant awarded by the British Academy of Medical Sciences, she leads the project ‘Sounding a Queer Rebellion: LGBTI Musical Resistances in Latin America’ together with musicologist Luis Gabriel Mesa Martínez.