Unveiling the Dark Side of Tonewoods: A Case Study about the Musical Instrument Demand for the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra El Sistema

Autor/in	Lafontant Di Niscia, Attilio
Titel	Unveiling the Dark Side of Tonewoods: A Case Study about the Musical Instrument Demand for the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra El Sistema
Quelle	In: Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 18 (2019) 3, S.259-288 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1545-4517
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Musical Instruments; Music Activities; Musicians; Ecology; Conservation (Environment); World History; Music Education; Children; Adolescents; Forestry; Natural Resources; Venezuela + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Musikinstrument; Musikalische Aktion; Musiker; Ökologie; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Weltgeschichte; Musikerziehung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Forstwissenschaft; Waldwirtschaft; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource
Abstract	In this article, I visualize the relationship between tonewood exploitation and the import of musical instruments for Venezuela's El Sistema, with the participation of the Venezuelan State, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and manufacturing companies from China and the Global North. My basis is a documentary study about the acquisitions and tenders to meet the demand of El Sistema, supporting this information with semi-structured interviews given to key informants. Subsequently, I contrast tonewood exploitation observed in these documents with environmentalist complaints that clarify the troubled deforestation scenario in the Global South since colonial times. All of this allowed me to uncover how, beneath the social welfare discourse of El Sistema, there are scenarios of environmental injustice. Finally, I deem the decolonization of these policies through the implementation of an ecological epistemology to be necessary and urgent. [This article was translated by Juan Carlos Trejos and Katherine Arce Méndez.] (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	MayDay Group. Brandon University School of Music, 270 18th Street, Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A9, Canada. Tel: 204-571-8990; Fax: 204-727-7318; Web site: http://act.maydaygroup.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01