{"id":147412,"date":"2025-10-25T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/dossiers-360\/festival-vibration-un-musicologue-franco-mexicain-se-passionne-pour-les-liens-entre-musique-et-politique\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:06:08","slug":"festival-vibration-un-musicologue-franco-mexicain-se-passionne-pour-les-liens-entre-musique-et-politique","status":"publish","type":"dossiers","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/dossiers-360\/festival-vibration-un-musicologue-franco-mexicain-se-passionne-pour-les-liens-entre-musique-et-politique\/","title":{"rendered":"Vibration Festival | A French-Mexican musicologist is passionate about the links between music and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\"><em>From October 16th to 18th, the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal held a conference entitled Music, Diplomacy, Propaganda. Curious by nature and a journalist by profession, our collaborator Michel Labrecque attended. He met Luis Velasco-Pufleau, a musicologist and experimental musician who runs a blog on the links between music and politics and conducts extensive research on this topic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Luis Velasco-Pufleau grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico, received a doctorate in musicology from the Sorbonne University in Paris, and taught at McGill University. He lives in Fribourg, Switzerland, and is an associate professor at the University of Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">This citizen of the world is also a musician in the experimental rock band Mad Song. A musicologist who makes music is not so rare. Several of them were present at this conference organized by the University of Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Luis Velasco-Pufleau is interested in all forms of music and its connection to politics. For example, he dissected the album <em>Le Tr\u00e9sor de la Langue<\/em> (1989) by Quebec guitarist Ren\u00e9 Lussier, which transformed Quebecois sound archives into music, to share it with the world and understand his political approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">He explored the use of music during wars and the role of music during the recent pandemic. He questions how the government produced a star-studded song called &#8220;Love Will Prevail&#8221; (the English title of a Mandarin song) to glorify and demonize the role of the Chinese people in the country where the pandemic began. It was a song approved by the communist government&#8217;s politburo. A song of solidarity and encouragement, but one that lacks any criticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">One of his recent interests is the war in Ukraine. \u201cIt\u2019s a very sensitive subject,\u201d he says. Many Ukrainian orchestras have toured Europe and elsewhere to raise awareness about the Russian invasion. \u201cBut suddenly, orchestras that used to play a lot of Russian works stopped playing them, even though it\u2019s part of their history over the last century. It\u2019s an understandable reaction; it was imperial music, but there are paradoxes: Dmitri Sostakovich, a composer who had a lot of trouble with the Soviet regime and who wrote a symphony dedicated to the fight against the Nazis, is being banned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Luis Velasco-Pufleau never makes judgments. He analyzes the facts, compares them, and analyzes them. &#8220;I try never to generalize or condemn anything; I observe music in specific political contexts.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Another bizarre example: Islamist extremists like ISIS in Syria and the Taliban in Afghanistan ban music when they take power. &#8220;But at the same time, in their propaganda videos, they use songs that resemble music; it&#8217;s very contradictory. They ban all music except that of the ISIS war.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">Luis Velasco-Pufleau has written several texts on the so-called &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; pop of the 80s, such as the Live Aid festival or the songs <em>We Are The World<\/em> or <em>Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?<\/em>, which brought together dozens of American and British rock stars, which helped raise tens of millions of dollars to fight famine in Ethiopia in 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">&#8220;It was a somewhat naive discourse of solidarity that said, we can&#8217;t change the world, but we can help. However, it didn&#8217;t address the root causes of the problem, which was a civil war in a particular context.&#8221; So, this solidarity certainly saved lives, but in a depoliticized context. It was also the beginning of the music video and international continuous news networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">On the other hand, these humanitarian musical interventions are much more complicated when Westerners are more familiar with the political context, notes Luis. &#8220;For Gaza and Ukraine, it&#8217;s impossible to do it in such a depoliticized way, because it&#8217;s much more politically charged in our countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">With the rise of populism all over the world, our French-Swiss-Mexican and somewhat Montreal friend is unlikely to run out of places for research and observation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">&#8220;I think that musicology and the humanities can help us better understand the situation in the world. What does music tell us about a conflict or a political situation?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">\u00ab\u00a0La musique est un outil formidable pour comprendre les identit\u00e9s, comment les gens pensent, forment une soci\u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0avec ses conflits\u00a0\u00bb, conclut notre musicien musicologue. Nous sommes plut\u00f4t d\u2019accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\">To learn more about Luis Velasco-Pufleau&#8217;s research, click on this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/msc.hypotheses.org\">https:\/\/msc.hypotheses.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From October 16th to 18th, the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal held a conference entitled Music, Diplomacy, Propaganda. Curious by nature and a journalist by profession, our collaborator Michel Labrecque attended. 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