[Linganth] Yana Stainova discusses her book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Yana Stainova on her book *Sonorous Worlds: Musical
Enchantment in Venezuela*. This is an interview by Ahona PalchoudhuriI

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: El Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education
program in Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by economist and musician José
Antonio Abreu, the institution has weathered seven jolting changes in
government. Hugo Chávez and, after his death, president Nicolás Maduro
enthusiastically included the institution into the political agenda of the
socialist project and captured the affective power of music for their own
aims. Fueled by the oil boom in the 2000s, El Sistema grew over the years
to encompass 1,210 orchestras for children and young people in Venezuela,
reached almost 1 million people out of the 30 million in the country, and
served as a model in more than 35 countries around the world.

*Sonorous Worlds* is an ethnography of the young Venezuelan musicians who
participate in El Sistema, many of whom live in urban *barrios* and face
everyday gang violence, state repression, social exclusion, and forced
migration in response to sociopolitical crisis. This book looks at how
these young people engage with what the author calls “enchantment,” that
is, how through musical practices they create worlds that escape, rupture,
and critique dominant structures of power.  Stainova’s focus on artistic
practice and enchantment allows her to theorize the successes and failures
of political projects through the lens of everyday transformations in
people’s lives.
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