North-South, South-South, a Glance at Production, Research and Music Criticism in Latin America Marita Fornaro Bordolli (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
[email protected] Mónica Vermes (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo – UFES, Brasil)
[email protected] The International Congress North-South Interchanges: Collaborations, Tensions, Hybridations, took place in September 2018. The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (CSOOLB) was, for the first time in Latin America, one of the organizers together with three regional public universities: the Universidade Estadual Paulista – Julio de Mesquita Filho, where in-person activities took place, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo and Universidad de la República of Uruguay. The Fifth National Congress of Researchers in Philosophy of Music (Brazil) was also part of the event. Among the researchers who travelled from outside the continent were the legendary Ivanka Stoïanova (Université de Paris 8), and two Spanish researchers working with the CSOOLB in collaborative projects, Germán Gan Quesada (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Belén Vega Pichaco (Universidad de La Rioja). Among the matters discussed during the Congress, considering the international relations framework conveyed by its name, we would like to highlight both the attention devoted to Latin American contemporary music, and the role of critics as a source to generate musical knowledge. This dossier, which is published in the current issue of the Journal of Music Criticism and in the 2022 issue, introduces some of the works of this meeting that use reviews and newspaper articles at the centre of research. Journal of Music Criticism, Volume 4 (2020), pp. 81-84 © Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini.