Description:
The film traces the
global circulation of the melody 'El Condor Pasa': from the Andes
mountains to global metropoles; from Lima to Paris to New York, and
back; from panpipes to piano and from symphony orchestras to the
disco; from indigenous to popular music; and from world music back to
national heritage. Some of the protagonists are: Paul Simon, Art
Garfunkel, Daniel Aloma Robles, Los Incas, the Falangist
Socialist Party of Bolivia, Chuck Berry, NASA and UNESCO.
Biography: Áslaug
Einarsdóttir is a documentary
filmmaker, anthropologist, and organiser based in Iceland and
California. She has written and directed several feature length
documentaries; the Sofa Generation (2006, with Garðar Stefánsson), Stand
Up Girls (2010), 7
years (2012, with Davíð Alexander
Corno) and 14 years (forthcoming, with Davíð Alexander Corno). She is the executive
director of Girls Rock! Iceland,
a feminist volunteer organization that focuses on empowering girls,
women, and trans youth through music and social justice education.
Valdimar
Tr. Hafstein is Professor of Folklore, Ethnology, and Museum Studies at the
University of Iceland. Former Chair of Iceland’s National
Commission for UNESCO and ex-president of the International Society
for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), he is the author of a number of
scholarly articles and books on intangible heritage, cultural
property, international heritage politics, folklore, and copyright in
traditional knowledge. His latest book is Making
Intangible Heritage: El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from UNESCO.
