How to Think and Do Research Work When the State Retreats

Abstract

The article discusses the consequences of the public policies applied by neoliberalism in the research field of social sciences and the humanities and, in particular, in the areas of those disciplines interested in music and sound expressions. The discussion limits itself to Argentina and to the 2016-2019 period, during which an alliance of neoliberals and conservatives ruled, and which brought to power a group of businesspeople and CEOs from big corporations by means of elections won with false promises and fake news widely spread by allied mass media.