Sergio Sorcia Reyes
Postgraduate Researcher
Sociology
About me
I am a PhD Student in Sociology, funded by the SSIS Global Excellence Studentship for Postgraduate Research.
Before joining the University of Exeter I have worked as a freelance musician and music educator in different settings. This work has provided me with extensive experience in music performance and music education. I also have experience working in community music projects, as well as teaching the undergraduate degree of classical and jazz music, as part of the music faculty at UNICACH in Chiapas, Mexico.
I have a strong interest in working with young people, and an important part of this work has taken place in detention centres for youth in Mexico.
Research Project:
My research is a qualitative study of the multiple ways that young people use and appropriate narcocorridos music in public spaces in Mexico.
For this research, I have used a multi-method approach, including interviews, ethnographic observations, and my adaptation of productive methods such as songwriting workshops. This method is a key component of my project, and it is designed to elicit some forms of tacit knowledge, emotion, and implicit (discursive and visual) narratives. This method also provides participants with opportunities to engage in meaningful musical experiences.
Research Supervisory team:
Professor Tia DeNora
Professor Katharine Tyler
Professional Development:
2024 -10 -23 Music, bodies, and violence: The case of Narcocorridos Music in Mexico – Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research – Edinburgh, Scotland
Speaker. In this talk, I demonstrated the powerful role of popular music as an organising force in everyday life. This empirically grounded study shows how music can inform and frame collective forms of behaviour such as alcohol consumption and violence in the public space.
2024 - 10 -7 International Research Symposium - Insider Music – Bergen, Norway
Co-organiser / Moderator. The event explored experiences of ethnographic research and practice of music making in institutional settings. The proceedings of this event will be published in a Special Issue in the Journal Music and Arts in Action.
2023 - 7 - 28 17th World Congress of Music Therapy - Vancouver, Canada
Presentation - Round table: Exploring the Boundaries of Music Therapy and Music Education in Action
2022-11-05 Have you heard Using Music as a Decolonising Tool
Co-organiser / Moderator - The Music Research Network at the University of Exeter invited participants for expanding conversations on this important issue. The day also included a keynote presentation and discussion with Guillermo Rosabal-Coto, Professor of Music Education at Universidad de Costa Rica.
2022-10-06 Collaboration and Empowerment: Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy and Anthropology (SPSPA) student PGR conference.
University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Presentation - Songwriting Workshops as Opportunities for Empowering the Participants of Research.
2021-12-06 SIMM Seminar 4 Porto - Research on music programmes in detention. Porto, Portugal.
The 4th SIMM research seminar was organized by the CIPEM/NET-md (Centro de Investigação em Psicologia da Música e Educação Musical) and the research platform SIMM and was focussing on research on music programmes in detention. The seminar took place from 6 until 9 December 2021 at CIPEM.
2021-10-28 I Coloquio sobre Canones, Narrativas y Tropos en la Msica Pop(ular) en Mxico. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Azcapotzalco - Ciudad de México, México. (online)
Presentation - Escribiendo corridos: La composición como método para explorar la construcción de narrativas y esquemas culturales en acción -
2021-10-21 InSPAration: Research impact in a digital culture. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK (online)
Co-organiser / Moderator - Departamental Conference on the Impact and dissemination of research.
2019-06-17 Exploring artistic, pedagogic, and therapeutic practices: Interdisciplinary knowledge for responsible research and innovation?
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Presentation - Narcocorridos, youth and culture beyond the Mexico – USA borderlands -
2019-05-14 Making SPAce: Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology (SPA) student PGR conference.
University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Presentation - Narcocorridos: Music mediation beyond the Mexico - U.S. borderlands -
2016-07-07 International Conference of the Centre for Education in the Criminal Justice System (CECJS) at IOE. UCL Institute of Education, London, UK.
Participant in workshops, including Gamelan Music in detention centres Workshop by Good Vibrations UK -
