Symposium: Currents in Colonial Ibero American Music Studies
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In 1494 the two kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal, signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the New World between them with the eventual blessing of Pope Julius Il's bull Ea quae pro bono pacis. These events paved the way for the continuous presence of the Spanish and Portuguese empires as colonial powers in the Americas until 1898, when Spain lost its last two colonies on the continent, Cuba and Puerto Rico. This symposium explores the dynamics of coloniality in Latin America through the lens of musical and aural practices that, regulated by a variety of imperial, religious, and civic institutions, played a significant role in shaping the ideologies that have affected everyday class, racial, and gender relations in the region for centuries.
The Symposium will feature the work of graduate students Flora Giordani, Felipe Ledesma-Núñez, Cibele Moura, Lucas Recciteli, and Juan Patricio Saenz, along the latest research by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Colonial Ibero American music studies, including Ireri Chávez-Bárcenas (Mexico), Miriam Escudero (Cuba), Omar Morales Abril (Guatemala), Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell (Mexico), Álvaro Torrente (Spain), Alejandro Vera (Chile), and Leonardo Waisman (Argentina).
Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Department of Music.