ROCKIN’ LAS AMERICAS: THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF ROCK IN LATIN/O AMERICA
BELLAGIO STUDY CENTER CONFERENCE
June
26-Aug. 2, 2002
In
2002, Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Eric Zolov ad Hector Fernandez L’Hoeste
organized a 7 day conference at the Rockefeller Foundation’s magnificent Study
Center in Bellagio Italy. The purpose of the Rockin'
Las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America conference was
to allow the three editors and the authors who contributed essays to the volume
of the same name to exchange their essays in preparation for publishing a book
of the same name. The
conference was held in the Frati, the Center’s recently restored and
modernized friary. The
Frati's physical simplicity and informality (clearly inspired by the philosophy
of the friars who built and lived in the building) allowed the participants to
feel comfortable with their surroundings, and to focus, without distractions of
any kind, on interacting with others and on creating, albeit temporarily, a
social and intellectual collective. It was truly an exciting and stimulating
experience.
Left
to right: Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Hector Castillo Berthier, Martha Tupinambá
de Ulhoa, Paulo Alvarado, Eric Zolov, Julia Palacios, Pablo Semán, Michelle
Habell-Pallan, Jorge Arévalo, Hector
Fernández L’Hoeste, Susana Asencio, Reebee Garofalo, Walecka
Pino-Ojeda, Bryan McCann, Maria Elena Cepeda
Left
to right: Hector Fernandez L’Hoeste, Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Eric Zolov