Geoff Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3803452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-1010-2609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Activismo en la Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile
Supuestamente, las orquestas infanto-juveniles tienden a comprometerse con la justicia social, pero ha surgido evidencia que acusa que aquello responde más a la construcción de un mito. El presente estudio propone como objetivo explorar las visiones institucionales que exponen los directores titulares de las orquestas propias de la Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile (FOJI, de aquí en adelante), ya que no hay consenso en el deb…
Who watches the watchmen? Evaluating evaluations of El Sistema
Within the growing field of publications on El Sistema and Sistema-inspired programmes around the world, a marked divide can be observed between the findings of critical academic studies and commissioned evaluations. Using evaluations of El Sistema in Venezuela and Aotearoa New Zealand as our principal case studies, we argue that this gulf can be explained at least partly by methodological problems in the way that some evaluations are carried out…
"El Sistema, "The Venezuelan Musical Miracle
The Venezuelan orchestral training program El Sistema represents a paradox. It may be the most famous and lauded music education system in the world, yet scholarly examination in recent years has revealed numerous flaws in the dominant narrative, which appears increasingly like a myth. This article examines the processes by which this narrative was established both nationally and internationally, focusing on the creation, dissemination, and conso…
Before you turn the page
This article consists of a series of reflections on research on El Sistema and the reception of the first (and to date only) academic book on the program. It underlines the uncertainty of the international Sistema sphere in the face of the information that is emerging about the Venezuelan program, and proposes various reasons for taking that information seriously and beginning an open and honest debate about El Sistema's problems and the position…
Mala Bizta Sochal Klu
The terms underground, alternative and commercial are widely used in discussions of popular music scenes in Havana and around the world. In Cuba, the words alternative and underground are often used interchangeably, in critical as well as popular discourse. I propose a working definition of, and a distinction between, these terms in Havana, since to render them synonymous reduces their usefulness. The distinction between underground and commercia…
Buena Vista in the Club
An Unpublished Account of an English Catholic's Tour to Edinburgh in 1657
Cuba Rebelión
Cuba Rebelion: Underground Music in Havana (2008) is billed as a documentary about the musical underground of Cuba, and their struggle against the present regime. The trailer describes underground scene of young musicians who, despite their creative suppression and censorship, have the courage to make a statement. This article questions this characterization of contemporary underground music in Havana, analyzing the relationship between Cuban und…
Reading and Politics in Early Modern England
"This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. This is an important study that will be of interest to all who work on the early modern period. The examination of Blundell's political and cultural worlds complicates generalisations about early modern religious identities and challenges a historical dete…
Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy
"Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Politics of Gender and Religion, by Kristen Post Walton." Canadian Journal of History, 43(3), pp. 527–528
Imposing Harmony
Imposing Harmonyis a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology's cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the Cathedral, Cuzco's musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions such as parish churches and monasteries employed indig…
Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England
Integrity Systems and Local Government
Australia's third sphere of government is local government, consisting of about 675 councils nationally, responsible for an average of 6 percent of total public sector expenditure (around $18 billion) annually. This article reviews key integrity issues confronting local government, based on experience in NSW and Queensland. Current issues confirm integrity to be a significant concern manifesting in a large variety of forms, both in council admini…
Nietzsche, Artaud, and Tragic Politics
Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic
Music in the Convents and Monasteries of Colonial Cuzco
In 1673 three Indian maestros cantores were hired to provide their musical services to the monastery of San Juan de Dios in Cuzco. They agreed to perform at five weekly masses and a range of other annual feasts such as the Fridays in Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Palm Sunday, and the feast-days of San Bartolomé and San Juan (the patron saints of the monastery's hospital and of the order), as well as any funerals of members of the monastery. On certain…
The Predication of Violence, the Violence of Predication
Imposing Harmony
Imposing Harmonyis a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology's cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the Cathedral, Cuzco's musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions such as parish churches and monasteries employed indig…
Mala Bizta Sochal Klu
The terms underground, alternative and commercial are widely used in discussions of popular music scenes in Havana and around the world. In Cuba, the words alternative and underground are often used interchangeably, in critical as well as popular discourse. I propose a working definition of, and a distinction between, these terms in Havana, since to render them synonymous reduces their usefulness. The distinction between underground and commercia…
Integrity Systems and Local Government
Australia's third sphere of government is local government, consisting of about 675 councils nationally, responsible for an average of 6 percent of total public sector expenditure (around $18 billion) annually. This article reviews key integrity issues confronting local government, based on experience in NSW and Queensland. Current issues confirm integrity to be a significant concern manifesting in a large variety of forms, both in council admini…
"El Sistema, "The Venezuelan Musical Miracle
The Venezuelan orchestral training program El Sistema represents a paradox. It may be the most famous and lauded music education system in the world, yet scholarly examination in recent years has revealed numerous flaws in the dominant narrative, which appears increasingly like a myth. This article examines the processes by which this narrative was established both nationally and internationally, focusing on the creation, dissemination, and conso…
Music in the Convents and Monasteries of Colonial Cuzco
In 1673 three Indian maestros cantores were hired to provide their musical services to the monastery of San Juan de Dios in Cuzco. They agreed to perform at five weekly masses and a range of other annual feasts such as the Fridays in Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Palm Sunday, and the feast-days of San Bartolomé and San Juan (the patron saints of the monastery's hospital and of the order), as well as any funerals of members of the monastery. On certain…
Cuba Rebelión
Cuba Rebelion: Underground Music in Havana (2008) is billed as a documentary about the musical underground of Cuba, and their struggle against the present regime. The trailer describes underground scene of young musicians who, despite their creative suppression and censorship, have the courage to make a statement. This article questions this characterization of contemporary underground music in Havana, analyzing the relationship between Cuban und…
The Predication of Violence, the Violence of Predication
Nietzsche, Artaud, and Tragic Politics
Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic
Music in the Convents and Monasteries of Colonial Cuzco
In 1673 three Indian maestros cantores were hired to provide their musical services to the monastery of San Juan de Dios in Cuzco. They agreed to perform at five weekly masses and a range of other annual feasts such as the Fridays in Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Palm Sunday, and the feast-days of San Bartolomé and San Juan (the patron saints of the monastery's hospital and of the order), as well as any funerals of members of the monastery. On certain…
Integrity Systems and Local Government
Australia's third sphere of government is local government, consisting of about 675 councils nationally, responsible for an average of 6 percent of total public sector expenditure (around $18 billion) annually. This article reviews key integrity issues confronting local government, based on experience in NSW and Queensland. Current issues confirm integrity to be a significant concern manifesting in a large variety of forms, both in council admini…
Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England
Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy
"Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Politics of Gender and Religion, by Kristen Post Walton." Canadian Journal of History, 43(3), pp. 527–528
Imposing Harmony
Imposing Harmonyis a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology's cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the Cathedral, Cuzco's musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions such as parish churches and monasteries employed indig…
Reading and Politics in Early Modern England
"This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. This is an important study that will be of interest to all who work on the early modern period. The examination of Blundell's political and cultural worlds complicates generalisations about early modern religious identities and challenges a historical dete…
Buena Vista in the Club
An Unpublished Account of an English Catholic's Tour to Edinburgh in 1657
Cuba Rebelión
Cuba Rebelion: Underground Music in Havana (2008) is billed as a documentary about the musical underground of Cuba, and their struggle against the present regime. The trailer describes underground scene of young musicians who, despite their creative suppression and censorship, have the courage to make a statement. This article questions this characterization of contemporary underground music in Havana, analyzing the relationship between Cuban und…
Mala Bizta Sochal Klu
The terms underground, alternative and commercial are widely used in discussions of popular music scenes in Havana and around the world. In Cuba, the words alternative and underground are often used interchangeably, in critical as well as popular discourse. I propose a working definition of, and a distinction between, these terms in Havana, since to render them synonymous reduces their usefulness. The distinction between underground and commercia…
Before you turn the page
This article consists of a series of reflections on research on El Sistema and the reception of the first (and to date only) academic book on the program. It underlines the uncertainty of the international Sistema sphere in the face of the information that is emerging about the Venezuelan program, and proposes various reasons for taking that information seriously and beginning an open and honest debate about El Sistema's problems and the position…
Who watches the watchmen? Evaluating evaluations of El Sistema
Within the growing field of publications on El Sistema and Sistema-inspired programmes around the world, a marked divide can be observed between the findings of critical academic studies and commissioned evaluations. Using evaluations of El Sistema in Venezuela and Aotearoa New Zealand as our principal case studies, we argue that this gulf can be explained at least partly by methodological problems in the way that some evaluations are carried out…
"El Sistema, "The Venezuelan Musical Miracle
The Venezuelan orchestral training program El Sistema represents a paradox. It may be the most famous and lauded music education system in the world, yet scholarly examination in recent years has revealed numerous flaws in the dominant narrative, which appears increasingly like a myth. This article examines the processes by which this narrative was established both nationally and internationally, focusing on the creation, dissemination, and conso…
Activismo en la Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile
Supuestamente, las orquestas infanto-juveniles tienden a comprometerse con la justicia social, pero ha surgido evidencia que acusa que aquello responde más a la construcción de un mito. El presente estudio propone como objetivo explorar las visiones institucionales que exponen los directores titulares de las orquestas propias de la Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile (FOJI, de aquí en adelante), ya que no hay consenso en el deb…
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