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CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON MUSIC AND HUMANITARIAN NARRATIVES
Luis Velasco-Pufleau is a musicologist and electroacoustic music composer.
He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg and associated
research fellow at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in
Paris (Humanitarian studies platform and ANR research programme Sortir
de la violence). His research focuses on political, historical, and aesthetics
issues of music and sound, in particular related to conflict and violence. After
completing his Ph.D. in Music and musicology at Sorbonne University
in 2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and University of Salzburg, as well as a Balzan
visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. He is an editorial board member
of the journal Transposition, Music and Social Sciences and editor of the
open access research blog Music, Sound and Conflict.
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