Researcher
Sound and listening pedagogies, immigrant musicians’ labor in Canada, and the coloniality of professional music training in Latin America.
Sound and Listening Pedagogies
Decentering “music” and focusing on sound and listening is a way to confront the ways in which conventional music education practices reproduces injustice and coloniality.
Recharte, M. 2019. De-centering ‘Music’: a ‘sound’ education. Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education 18 no. 1: 68-88.
Decolonizing Higher Music Education
“Becoming a Professional Folklore Musician” is a historically-informed ethnographic case study of the Escuela Superior Nacional de Folklore José María Arguedas in Lima, Perú.
ListenUp! a ZINE by Immigrant Musicians in Toronto
In 2024 KUNE undertook a participatory action research project with immigrant musicians in Toronto. The result was a Zine that was launched at a concert in Drom Taberna. For more information about this research and the KUNE HUB go to http://www.kuneworld.com/community
Publications
- Recharte, M. 2027 (forthcoming). Popular Music Education in Latin America. In, Blackwell, J. McPherson, G. Smith, D.G. The New Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Oxford University Press.
- Recharte, M. 2027 (forthcoming). Educating the “Professional Folklore Musician” and the Coloniality of Participatory and Presentational Frameworks. The Oxforrd Handbook of Participatory Music Making. Oxford University Press.
- Recharte, M. 2027 (forthcoming). “Pedagogias musicales abiertas and sound education: Murray Schafer, FLADEM, and a transnation pedagogy of sound and listening”. Murray Schafer’s Ecologies of Music and Sound Re-examined. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
- Recharte, M. 2026 (forthcoming). “Professionalizing Folklore in Latin America: Four Paradigms of the Musician and the Coloniality of Music Education.” in Visions of Research in Music Education. Vol. 47
- Duarte, V. Recharte, M. Escobar, I. 2024 “Listen Up! What Immigrant Musicians Want You to Know”. [Research Report]. KUNE.
- Recharte, M. 2022. Becoming a “Professional Folklore Musician”: the coloniality of Higher Music Education in Peru. [PhD Dissertation] University of Toronto.
- Jah’Milla, k. apong, S. Brodie, A. Stewart, K.P. Cobbler, S. Howard, M. Recharte. 2022. “Reggae Roots Curriculum Guide.” National Arts Center. https://nac-cna.ca/en/reggae-roots
- Beach, A. Friesen, D. Moynihan, M. Prosser, L. Recharte, M. 2021 “Shifting Perspectives in Remote Connection.” The Canadian Music Educator 61 no. 4
- Recharte, M. 2019. De-centering ‘Music’: a ‘sound’ education. Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education 18 no. 1: 68-88.