Appendix 6 - International Music Council

§ Venezuela: Musical Mind is an independent recording label developing creative and
technical music of different genres and styles, emphasizing those non-commercials.
www.musicalmind.net
México: Almost all of the Mexico City’s classical music orchestras include Mexican
composers (contemporary and classical) in their monthly/weekly program.
Consejo de la Música en México/CIM
Paraguay: René Ayala uses a mixture of indigenous and electro-acoustic instruments.
Consejo Paraguayo de la Música / CIM
• Cite examples where they are averse to musical diversity.
No general aversion to music diversity. Nevertheless it occurs within groups:
a) Classical music composers and performers demonstrate aversion to commercial and
popular music and in some radical cases even to traditional and Indigenous music.
b) Some singers, composers themselves of their own songs, or rock/pop groups
demonstrate aversion to academic musicians, considering they develop an antiquated
genre.
c) Some people think musicians coming from Conservatories or music schools belong to
the elite, even when “elite” is not caused by academic knowledge, but when general
public feels fear to approach to it.
d) Music schools and Conservatories’ training is based on occidental academic music,
excluding traditional/regional genres.
e) As said before, television, radio and recording companies provoke aversion to noncommercial
genres.
Consejo de la Música en México/CIM
Paraguay: Certain groups, descended from dictatorial models occurring in the past, have
the tendency to fanatically promote an exacerbated nationalism against other cultures.
However, this is not a massive phenomenon. Consejo Paraguayo de la Música / CIM.
• Cite examples where they support, or weaken, the practice of local traditional or
indigenous music.
Argentina: Local practices are not supported or weakened, they are ignored.
Miguel Angel Estrella is fulfilling a project La voz de los sin voz (the Voice of those with
no voice), denouncing the situation of artists who have ideas to express but no place to be
heard. Consejo Argentino de la Música / CIM.
§ Colombia: The Colombian Musical Foundation organizes an annual vocal duets
contest in which there is an obligation to use the tiple (regional string instrument) to
accompany the singers. Musical genres such as bambuco, pasillo and guabina are
performed.
Fundación Musical de Colombia - http://www.fundacionmusicaldecolombia.com
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