Daniel Party

About me

I am a professor at Universidad Católica de Chile, where I hold a joint appointment in the College and Music. Before that I taught in the Music Department at Saint Mary's College (Indiana, USA).

I have been a visiting professor at UT Austin,  Tulane, Brown, University of Oregon, and University of Georgia.

Between 2015 and 2019 I served as Director of Graduate Studies & Research for Universidad Católica's School of Arts.

I earned my PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, and my undergradute degrees–a BS in Physics and a BA in Music–at Universidad Católica de Chile.

Research Interests and Current Projects

My research interests include popular music and culture of the Americas and Spain, gender and sexuality, and music and social movements.

Currently, I am responsible researcher of the three-year grant by ANID's FONDECYT Regular (1220146, 2022-2025), titled Gender Performance in the Music of Víctor Jara.

I am one of the principal researchers in the interdisciplinary Millennium Nucleus in Musical and Sound Cultures, a three-year study funded by ANID's Iniciativa Científica Milenio (NCS2022_016, 2023-2025).

Manuscripts and recent publications

"Renovación de la conmemoración del golpe de estado chileno: Los Diablos Rojos de Víctor Jara en la marcha por los derechos humanos" (co-authored with Javiera Benavente). Manuscript under review.

Party, D., & Wolf, J. E. (2023). Canto por travesura: folklore y picaresca en un disco de Víctor Jara. Revista Musical Chilena, 77(240), 62-79. https://revistamusicalchilena.uchile.cl/index.php/RMCH/article/view/67922 

Party, D. (2023). The Right to Live in Peace: Musical Responses to Violence in the 2019 Chilean Uprising. Latin American Perspectives, 50(3), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X231176781 

Party, D. (2023). Rethinking Post-Authoritarian Chile Through its Popular Music. Twentieth-Century Music, 20(1), 90-106. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572222000494 

Party, D. (2022). Y ¿cómo es él?: José Luis Perales y la crisis de la masculinidad de la Transición española. Trans: Revista transcultural de música, 26, 1-13. https://www.sibetrans.com/trans/articulo/618/y-como-es-el-jose-luis-perales-y-la-crisis-de-la-masculinidad-de-la-transicion-espanola 

Benavente, J., & Party, D. (2022). Los Diablos Rojos de Víctor Jara: Un análisis coreográfico y musical. Resonancias, 26(51), 97-117. https://doi.org/10.7764/res.2022.51.5 

Party, D. (2021). El cover queer: cuestionar la heteronorma desde la voz cantada. Resonancias, 25(49), 177-181. https://doi.org/10.7764/res.2021.49.12 

Kalawski, A., Party, D., & Opazo, C. (2021). Experiencia de armario: Una lectura queer de dos dramas de Luis Alberto Heiremans. Revista Chilena de Literatura, (104), 643-669. https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/65816 

Robledo, J. P., Hawkins, S., Cornejo, C., Cross, I., Party, D., & Hurtado, E. (2021). Musical improvisation enhances interpersonal coordination in subsequent conversation: Motor and speech evidence. PLoS ONE, 16(4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259704