- Resources from Google search and other online researchThese appeared in our research exchanges, although the original search gateway was not always recorded:
- UNESCO — Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005), particularly Article 4.8 on interculturality. UNESCO
- UNESCO material on Venezuelan musical heritage and joropo, during the earlier preservation stage.
- Discogs’ “Latin” classification, as a reference for examining how diverse musical practices are grouped.
- Recording Academy / Grammy categories, in our discussion of “Latin” as an institutional label.
- Genius, which you explicitly identified as a reference for unpacking songs through artists’ explanations.
- Prodavinci’s interview with Simón Díaz, used in our discussion of Caballo Viejo, its circulation and reinterpretations.
- FEMMUSIC and BroadwayWorld coverage of Qendresa, consulted during our attempt to identify the artist and song you described as “Cassandra con Q / Un pasito.” That identification remains unresolved.
- NPR Illinois material on reggaetón’s genealogy, in the same discussion.
- Rolling Stone Spain, PBS, CNN transcripts, DDIA, Los Angeles Times, Apple and UCLA Newsroom, referenced in our discussion of Bad Bunny, cultural identity and representation. The individual article titles were not consistently preserved.
- Smithsonian material on cumbia amazónica, raised in the recent discussion of cumbia’s regional transformations.
- UAL library resourcesYour earlier message contained 20 loan items. The three additions bring the list to 23. Authors below follow the information recovered from your loan messages; “not recorded” means that detail was missing, rather than that the work is anonymous.#BookAuthor recorded1Third Culture KidsPollock2EthnographyHammersley3Assessing AutoethnographyHerrmann4Qualitative ResearchNot recorded5Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather CreateVis6Disrupted BordersNot recorded7Research Practice for Cultural StudiesGray8The Practice of Cultural AnalysisNot recorded9The Transnational Beat GenerationNot recorded10Critical EthnographyMadison11Disability, Intersectional Agency and Latinx IdentityPadilla12Whose Culture?Not recorded13CurationBhaskar14CuratopiaNot recorded15The Act of CreationKoestler16MindsetDweck17The User IllusionNørretranders18The Embodied MindVarela19Diaspora & HybridityKalra20Global DiasporasCohen21Putting Popular Music in Its PlaceCharles Hamm22DJ CultureUlf Poschardt23Sound UnseenBrian KaneOther UAL resources discussed:
- Eleanor Beckman and Adam Ramejkis — Intercultural Communication Across Courses (2022), available through UAL Research Online. This was a conference presentation resource; we have not established that you attended the conference. UAL Research Online
- Elizabeth Wright — 4i: Developing a Critically Reflective Practice.
- Elizabeth Wright’s triangulation materials.
- Tutorial feedback from Elizabeth Wright, particularly on audience, methods, evidence and subsequent interventions.
- Jeanine François, referenced in your methodological discussions; the specific session or publication title was not recovered.
- MA Applied Imagination Course Handbook 2025–26, including the copy attached here.
- Resources from other academic institutions, journals and academic publishersThese are the principal academic works we have discussed. Some were examined through quotations, abstracts or selected passages rather than complete readings.AuthorResourceStuart Hall“Encoding/Decoding” (1980); “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” (1990); Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (1997)Paul GilroyThe Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993)Catherine Walsh“Interculturalidad crítica y educación intercultural” (2010), including the text hosted by Universidad de Chile. uchile.clDarla K. Deardorff“Identification and Assessment of Intercultural Competence as a Student Outcome of Internationalization” (2006), including the copy hosted by Mercer County Community College. Mercer County Community CollegeDiana Omigie and Iris Mencke“A model of time-varying music engagement” (2023). PMCFrank M. Diaz“Listening and Musical Engagement: An Exploration of the Effects of Different Listening Strategies on Attention, Emotion, and Peak Affective Experiences” (2015). eric.ed.govChristopher SmallMusicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening (1998), and the related 1999 lecture/article. elearning.unito.itTia DeNoraMusic in Everyday Life (2000). cambridge.orgGregory Ashworth and Peter LarkhamBuilding a New HeritageDavid LowenthalThe Past Is a Foreign CountryLaurajane SmithUses of HeritageNéstor García Canclini“La globalización: ¿productora de culturas híbridas?”Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Pablo Vila, editorsCumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre (2013), introduced in our recent discussion of music changing through migration. dukeupress.eduInstitutional access points mentioned included University of Warwick for Hall’s diaspora text, Universidad de Chile, Mercer County Community College, Cambridge University Press, Duke University Press, SAGE and Taylor & Francis.
- Data gathering from social media platforms
- Social-media promotion of Venezuela Remixed, which formed part of participant recruitment.
- Online circulation of artists, songs and remixes, discussed in relation to identity, visibility and cultural framing.
- SoundCloud remixes, referenced during the development of the musical selection.
- Artists’ digital networks, discussed particularly through Alberto Stangarone’s account of maintaining connections across countries.
- Videos, films and documentaries
- RiP!: A Remix Manifesto — discussed through Girl Talk, remix, copyright and the relationship between existing culture and new creation.
- Alberto Stangarone interview recordings and selected clips — your own primary research material, subsequently organised around identity, migration, musical codes and cultural inheritance.
- Your January Project 2 video/manifesto — an earlier MA experiment concerning labelling, migration, connection and belonging, shared with peers and published on YouTube.
- Music videos connected with the Bad Bunny case discussion, although the record does not establish which videos you watched in full.
- Art initiatives and projectsExternal references:
- School for Poetic Computation — The Digital Will.
- Stacey Pitsillides — Digital Death.
- Virgil Abloh’s “Tourist vs Purist” framework, discussed in relation to cultural knowledge, participation and reinterpretation.
- Venezuela Remixed — completed listening/DJ intervention.
- Latin Record Shop — digital prototype exploring listening, classification and interpretation.
- Venseremos — your musical work, discussed through globalisation, memory and collective identities.
- Atrás del Muro / Behind the Wall — proposed artist-led listening intervention.
- Archive 001–003 — proposed structures for song-memory connections, remixes/reinterpretations and future musical sketches.
- Music as a resourceThe named musical material in our discussions includes:GroupResources mentionedSpecific songs and recordsSimón Díaz: Caballo Viejo, Tonada de Luna Llena, La Vaca Mariposa; Alma Llanera; Moliendo Café; El Burrito Sabanero; Aldemaro Romero: De repente; Vytas Brenner: La OfrendaReinterpretation and circulation casesVersions and translations of Caballo Viejo; Gipsy Kings’ Bamboleo; the unresolved “Cassandra con Q / Un pasito” exampleAlberto Stangarone / Todosantos / SunsplashAeropuerto, Delfines, Acid Girls, and musical references discussed in the interviewVenezuelan traditions and popular musicAlí Primera, Un Solo Pueblo, Serenata Guayanesa, Billo’s Caracas Boys, Otilio Galíndez, Soledad Bravo, Ilan Chester, Guaco, Alberto Naranjo / El Trabuco, Edward Simon and Oscar D’LeónContemporary and diasporic practicesLos Amigos Invisibles, Desorden Público, Canserbero, Rawayana, Arca, Cardopusher / Safety Trance, DJ Babatr, Phran, Pocz, Sunsplash, Orestes Gómez and Chino y NachoOther repertoire referencesLa Lupe; salsa baúl; SoundCloud edits and remixesBad Bunny case materialEl Apagón, Lo que le pasó a Hawaii, DtMF, BAILE INoLVIDABLE and Tití Me PreguntóYour practiceAMON’s Venseremos, DJ selections and the repertoire assembled for Venezuela Remixed and Latin Record ShopMusical forms discussed include joropo, tonada, gaita, tambores, merengue caraqueño, salsa, cumbia, tuki/raptor house, reggaetón, Latin disco and electronic club music.Your recent cumbia comparison also belongs here: examining how music carrying the same genre name develops different sounds and meanings in different places. These entries represent a developing musical corpus, rather than a claim that every artist or track received equivalent analysis.
- Performance and theatre
- Your DJ performance at Venezuela Remixed, considered as a research method and a way of presenting a temporary musical archive.
- Audience dancing, bodily responses and social interaction during the event.
- Your wider AMON performance practice, including selection, sequencing, mixing and observing how audiences respond.
- Games and playful elements
- Latin Record Shop’s browsing and discovery experience.
- Side A / Side B comparisons between original recordings and reinterpretations.
- Two-deck mixing and volume controls, allowing listeners to explore relationships between recordings.
- “What do you hear?” and participant-generated classification, comparing the curator’s framing with listeners’ interpretations.
- The constrained musical-selection exercise inspired by Desert Island Discs, developed as a possible personal archive.
- Listening through separate stems, proposed as an exploratory activity.
- Cultural events, exhibitions, conferences, talks and gatherings
- Venezuela Remixed — 18 June 2026, Behind This Wall, Hackney. Your clearest completed research event.
- KADABRA — 3 May 2026, Behind This Wall. Part of your wider DJ and cultural practice; its specific research contribution needs to be articulated.
- UAL tutorials and research discussions, particularly those with Elizabeth Wright.
- The Digital Will, discussed as a session/resource; attendance was not established in the recovered record.
- Intercultural Communication Across Courses, consulted as conference material rather than evidence of conference attendance.
- Atrás del Muro, documented as a proposed gathering, not a completed event.
- Podcasts and audiobooks
- BBC — Desert Island Discs. A reference for using a limited selection of recordings to narrate biography, memory and inheritance.
- NPR — Alt.Latino. Suggested during our discussion of Latin musical categories.
- NPR — Code Switch. Suggested in relation to identity and representation.
Specific episodes were not recorded, and I have not identified a confirmed audiobook.
- Surveys with people
- Venezuela Remixed’s QR-linked questionnaire.
- Recorded participation: 15 views, 6 starts and 2 submissions.
- A listening-session prompt developed in our exchanges: “What song reminds you of the part of yourself that migration could not erase?”
- Proposed participant questions within Latin Record Shop, including “What do you hear?”
The questionnaire figures are completed evidence. The prototype’s proposed questions should be distinguished from responses actually collected.
- Interviews with people
| Person | Status and material |
|---|---|
| Alberto Stangarone / Sunsplash | Completed interview, 18 August 2026, with transcript and timestamped extracts. Topics included Venezuela–New York–Mexico, cultural codes, migration, tuki, Rawayana and changing understandings of Venezuelan/Latin identity. |
| Cardopusher / Safety Trance | Completed conversation/interview discussed in your reflections. Topics included musical influences and his relationship with explicit Venezuelan identity in artistic practice. Exact date not recovered. |
| Baldo Verdú | Identified as a prospective expert/stakeholder consultation; completion not confirmed. |
| Owner of Behind This Wall | Identified as a prospective consultation about the listening intervention; completion not confirmed. |
- Other field research
- Seven Sisters / Latin Village / Ward’s Corner: observations of language, flags, food, businesses, music and expressions of Latin American belonging.
- Photographs and signs from Seven Sisters, including Sound Latino Radio and statements about Latino identity.
- Elephant & Castle: exploration of Latin American presence and cultural representation.
- London record shops: observations of different countries and musical traditions grouped under “Latin” or “Latin Music.” Individual shop names were not recovered.
- Participant observation at Venezuela Remixed: dancing, emotional responses, conversations and interactions.
- Informal conversations within your artistic network, including contacts associated with Caracas’ music scene.
- Other resources and research documentation
Methodological resources previously discussed:
- Blaxter, Hughes and Tight — How to Research, third edition.
- Colin Robson — Real World Research (1993).
- Design Council — Double Diamond.
- McNiff’s action-research work, although the exact title was not recovered.
Your own research documentation:
- Unit 2 Individual Reflection.
- Unit 3 drafts, presentations and reflective writing.
- Your positionality and autobiographical accounts connecting Caracas, Peru, migration, London and musical practice.
- Interview transcripts, field photographs, event documentation and questionnaire records.
- The two reference compilations developed here: Musical Engagement Research References and Interculturality Research References.
- Your selected notes connecting interculturality and musical engagement.
- The poetry excerpt used in your September presentation, recorded in the draft under “Alberto Cairo”; its attribution and exact wording require checking before inclusion in a bibliography.
Additional references suggested in earlier exchanges, with your reading unconfirmed:
| Area | References raised |
|---|---|
| London and urban diversity | Panikos Panayi, Migrant City; Steven Vertovec, “Super-diversity and its implications”; Susanne Wessendorf, Commonplace Diversity; Paul Gilroy, After Empire; Mica Nava, Visceral Cosmopolitanism; Les Back, New Ethnicities and Urban Culture; Caspar Melville, It’s a London Thing; Lisiak, Back and Jackson, “Urban multiculture and xenophonophobia in London and Berlin” |
| Appropriation and cultural exchange | Richard A. Rogers, “From Cultural Exchange to Transculturation”; James O. Young, Cultural Appropriation and the Arts; Young and Conrad Brunk, The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation; García Canclini, Hybrid Cultures; bell hooks, “Eating the Other”; Deborah Root, Cannibal Culture; Susan Scafidi, Who Owns Culture? |
| Authors mentioned without a confirmed work | Homi Bhabha, Erich Hatala Matthes and Rosemary Coombe |
| Contextual data sources | ONS 2021 Census and the London Plan / London City Hall |