“El Maestro y la Diva”: women jazz musicians who subvert the jazz canon in Bogotá

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Jazz canon, Jazz women, Bogota jazz, Diva, Maestro

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Daniela González Ramos
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Ana Lucía Hurtado Ocampo
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Abstract

Although the Bogotá jazz canon has been cited as one of the styles that has most successfully broken down class, race, and gender stereotypes, as in other musical scenes, it continues to reproduce models and stereotypes that accentuate the historical violence inflicted on women in the musical sphere in Western societies. The Diva and the Maestro emerge as archetypal images of the exclusionary precepts with which this musical genre has been canonized in Bogotá. Based on qualitative analyses, this article explores the challenges and struggles currently faced by women within this musical context and the impacts that the canonization of jazz has had on them in terms of inequality and exclusion.

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Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025): Dossier: Music Journalism in Latin America: Cultural Processes and Interdisciplinarity

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Author Biographies

Daniela González Ramos, Pontifical Xavierian University

Anthropologist, with more than eight years of experience as a researcher. Specialist in gender studies and master's degree in cultures of peace. Member of the Research Seedbeds on Festive Cultures at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and on biopolitics and histories of sexuality at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Research experience from the ethnomusicological perspective with the following academic works: Monograph professional qualification “El son cubano y la cubanidad: puntadas etnográficas desde La Habana”, lecturer at the 9th Latin American Conference of Social Sciences “Mujeres, son cubano y jazz: la lucha por la visibilidad de mujeres músicas en Bogotá y La Habana”. Also author of the article: “‘Limpieza social’: trabajadoras sexuales trans y conflicto armado en Colombia” from the Magazine Tramas y Redes of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, and evaluator of the article ID-5204 presented to the magazine Salud Colectiva of the Universidad Nacional de Lanús

Ana Lucía Hurtado Ocampo, Pontifical Xavierian University

Anthropologist and musician, with more than six years of experience as a researcher. Final semester student of the Master's Degree in Cultural Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Member of the Festive Cultures Research Seedbeds in Colombia and Latin America of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Research experience from ethnomusicology with the following academic works: Monograph with meritorious professional qualification “'Se abre el jam': jazz en Bogotá, escena en movimiento en tiempos de globalización” and lecturer at the 9th Latin American Conference of Social Sciences “Mujeres, son cubano y jazz: la lucha por la visibilidad de mujeres músicas en Bogotá y La Habana”, for CLACSO. Also nominated for the Otto de Greiff award for the work “Se abre el jam”, recognition given to the best university research in the country.

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“‘El Maestro Y la Diva’: Women Jazz Musicians Who Subvert the Jazz Canon in Bogotá”. 2025. Revista Argentina de Musicología 26 (1): 67-89. https://www.ojs.aamusicologia.ar/index.php/ram/article/view/502.

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