ESMUC- MuPIC Research Group – Music, Performance, Identities and Body

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MuPIC Research Group – Music, Performance, Identities and Body

Within the MuPiC research group, complementary disciplinary perspectives converge around the central axes that structure its activity: Music and Performance, Live Performance, Musical and Audiovisual Creation, Critical Pedagogy and Musicology, Archival and Library Sciences, and Critical Theory. Each member contributes, from their own academic experience, with conceptual and methodological tools to investigate the intersections between music, embodiment, live performance and identities. Some of MuPiC’s main objectives are: to produce high-quality knowledge about music, performance and embodiment through ethnographic and practical artistic research, employing mixed methods of data collection and taking into account human diversity in all its dimensions; critically examine the relationship between the body, music and sexuality in different musical performance formats and audiovisual culture; and analyse music in the interdisciplinary field, developing a new technical paradigm for musical performance.

General information

Group code
Coordination	Dr. Susana Egea Ruiz
Field of research	Arts and humanities
Department	Classical and Contemporary Music

Areas of specialisation

Music creation

Musical pedagogies

Somatic education applied to musical expression

Etnomusicology.

Musical interpretation

Educational research in the field of music

Areas of knowledge (RD 774/2002)

Social Anthropology (030)

Pedagogy of Body Expression (187)

Pedagogy of Musical Expression (189)

Music (635)

Disciplines (UNESCO)

Anthropology: Ethnomusicology (510105)

Arts and Humanities: Music, Musicology (620306)

Pedagogical Methods (580107)

Research team

Dr. Rolf Baecker

Dr. Luca Chiantore

Dr. Francisco Javier Duque Gutiérrez

Dr. Susana Egea Ruiz

Dr. Marc Heilbron Ferrer

Dr. Rubén López Cano

Dr. Montserrat Torras Salvador

Other members

Dr. Sara Revilla Gútiez

Dr. Úrsula Sancristóbal Opazo

Dr. Cristina Cubells Pérez

Laia Castellvell Guijarro

Gisela Garcia Brugada

Jordi Alomar Payeras

Research Lines

Performativity and gender in transcultural musical contexts.

Body, Gesture and Rituality in Music and Dance: Transcultural Studies.

Challenging the mind-body dualism and dissociative modes of thought in music and dance.

Aesthetic philosophy of the idealised body and of embodied corporeality.

Practice-based research, critical pedagogies and sonic corporeality (the sounding body).

Music, normativity and a critique of the colonial gaze on the body.

Gesture, movement and action as mechanisms for improving technical skills in musical performance.

Supervised doctoral theses

Marc Salvador Pons Aubinyà, La creativitat com a component didàctic en la coordinació d’àrees curriculars: el cas de l’ensenyament instrumental i del llenguatge musical a les escoles de música, Facultat de Ciències de l’Educació de la UAB, 21 April 2026, cosupervised by Dr. José Tejada Fernández (UAB) and Dr. Javier Duque Gutiérrez (Esmuc).

Diana Marcela Rodríguez Vivas, Las escuelas francobelga y rusa en la interpretación violinística de las obras de Luis Carlos Figueroa y Mario Gómez-Viñes, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal). Departamento de Comunicação e Artes, 23 January 2026, cosupervised by António José Vassalo Neves Lourenço and Luca Chiantore.

María del Carmen Fuente Gimeno, No sólo Böhm. Las flautas traveseras alternativas a las de sistema Böhm en Alemania en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y principios del XX. Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) Departamento de Comunicação e Artes, 31 October 2024, cosupervised by Jorge Salgado Correia, Pedro Couto Soares i Luca Chiantore.

Maby Muñoz Henonín, Las Menesistas: Pianistas y músicas mexicanas (1886-1956), UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 10 June 2022, Unidad de Posgrado de la Facultad de Música, cosupervised by Yael Bitrán Goren, Leonora Saavedra and Luca Chiantore.

Andra Cârstea, Parlando rubato: La presencia de la música popular rumana en la interpretación de las obras para piano de George Enescu, 20 May 2022, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), Departamento de Comunicação e Artes, supervised by Luca Chiantore.

Rafael Sánchez Guevara, Violonchelo y viola da gamba desclasificados. Aproximaciones teóricas, documentales y prácticas . UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Unidad de Posgrado de la Facultad de Música, 20 January 2023, supervised by Luca Chiantore.

Renier Garnier, Desde arriba, Lucas te mira. Una genealogía del videoclip cubano como dispositivo multimodal (1998-2022), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, July 2023, cosupervised by Eduardo Viñuela, Lizette Amalia Alegre González Suárez and Rubén López-Cano.

Laia Martín, Sin distancias: Una propuesta interpretativa en torno a las sonatas de Domenico Scarlatti transcritas por Enrique Granados, Universidade de Aveiro. Departamento de Comunicação e Artes, 21 April 2022, supervised by Luca Chiantore.

Edith Ruiz Zepeda, Hacia una metodología razonada de la enseñanza de la lectura a primera vista: Estudio comparativo de la efectividad de los métodos Harris, Bullard y Kember en la enseñanza de la lectura a primera vista, UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Unidad de Posgrado de la Facultad de Música, 3 December 2018, supervised by Luca Chiantore.

Bibiana Delgado, Apropiación, subjetividad e identidad en los participantes de la escena salsera de Bogotá, Universidad de Valladolid, 22 July 2017, cosupervised by Enrique Cámara and Rubén López-Cano.

Fernando Pascual León, Johann Mattheson: El perfecto maestro de capilla, (1739). Estudio preliminar y traducción crítica, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, 2020, cosupervised by Luís Antonio González and Rolf Bäcker.