Matias Recharte

Researcher

I study sound and listening pedagogies, the coloniality of professional music training in Latin America and

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.

In 2019 I published an article that has been influential in this field titled De-centering ‘Music’: a “sound education”

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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.

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