BIENAL DE MÚSICA ISABELINA 2020
TRANSNATIONAL APPROACHES AND COSMOPOLITAN LOCALISMS
STUDY DAYS. CALL FOR PAPERS
March 20th and 21st, 2020
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Romanticismo
http://www.spemi.es
Scientific Committee: Juan José Carreras, João Silva, Alberto Hernández Mateos
SPEMI (Sociedad para el Estudio de la Música Isabelina), in collaboration with the Conservatorio Profesional de Música “Arturo Soria”, and the Museo Nacional del Romanticismo, invites proposals for its Study Days on the musical life under the reign of Isabella II of Spain, which will take place within the fourth Bienal de Música Isabelina (Biennial of Music in the Times of Isabella II). On this occasion, the Study Days invite you to reflect on the trans-national dynamics as well as its influence on the musical life in the mid-nineteenth century (c. 1830-c. 1880).
Nineteenth century has been defined as the “century of nationalism and national states”. At the same time, it was a historical period characterized by an increasing level of global interconnection. Distances were shortened and the timespan was accelerated due to the advances in transportation, whilst the development of mass media facilitated the integration of regions that were geographically remote. Colonialism and exoticism—which were frequently the two sides of the same coin—epitomize the global dimension that was acquired by elements such as the economy, the political thinking or the aesthetic ideas during this time period. Following Jürgen Osterhammel’s observations, all this confirms that cross-border relations (transnational, transcontinental and trans-cultural) strengthened during the nineteenth century.
Music History was equally marked by a greater level of transnational integration. It was not by chance that critics and thinkers emphasized the common traces of musical practices in different parts of the globe at the sociological, technical, aesthetical or productive levels. Capitalist system, which expanded to reach a global dimension, was the framework in which these shared musical practices developed. They were disseminated through international and intercontinental networks able to connect major cities of the world. At this point, the musical reality acquired the form of a kaleidoscope—therefore, it is impossible to solely analyse such a reality from the restrictive angles of “the local” or “the national”.
Hence several authors in the realm of Musicology advocate for the adoption of new perspectives that make it possible to present a more-complete picture of such a dynamic and changing reality, overcoming the nationalistic visions that have dominated the discipline. Until very recently, the studies of the musical culture under the reign of Isabella II were viewed within this reductionist perspective, favouring national or even local frameworks over comparative methodologies. It has hindered enormously the construction of narratives able to integrate the Spanish culture in broader horizons (Iberian, European or Ibero-American), and has offered a distorted picture of the period, which has been frequently based on paradigms of isolation and exceptionality.
These Study Days aim to formulate alternatives to this dominant discourse, by incorporating methodologies that include comparative, cosmopolitan and transnational perspectives in the study of the music and the musical culture under the reign of Isabella II. We welcome proposals that may be included under one or more of the following thematic areas:
The emergence of integrated systems: Circulation of musicians, music scores and ideas at a transnational level (Iberian Peninsula, Europe, Ibero-America); the Atlantic Ocean as the axis of a common musical culture; the Pan-Iberist ideal and its reflection in music; metropolis, colonies and independent nations;
Music and urban experience: The city as a place for cultural encounters; interconnected cities (Paris-Barcelona-Madrid-Lisbon-Havana-Rio de Janeiro); transnational musical practices in the urban context; comparative perspectives in the spaces of music consumption and socialization;
Musical genres and transnationality: Opera and musical theatre; nation and internationalization from Rossini to Wagner; opera, operetta, zarzuela and revue; dissemination of operatic works through adaptations, translations and arrangements; the expansion of the idea of “Classical Music”;
Travels, exiles and tournées: The impact of the means of transportation on the organization of modern musical life; the concert tournée as a symbol of modern musical culture; exile as transnational experience; music and technology;
Press, publications and historiography: Circulation of critics and commenters; the musical press and its dissemination; texts: translations, versions and circulation within an interconnected network; national historiography: local, national and transnational histories;
Cosmopolitanism and nation: Alterity and self-perception; exoticism, colonialism and self-exotization; universalism and nationalism; cosmopolitism as an aesthetic attitude; Beethoven and national music(s); eclecticism and adaptation strategies; experiences of cultural hybridization.
Proposal submissions:
Proposals (including a title, 400-words abstract, and 4-6 bibliographical references) must be sent by November 4th, 2019. The proposals will be evaluated anonymously by the members of the Scientific Committee. Please, submit your proposals (in Castilian/Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician or English) to:
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Papers will have a maximum duration of 20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion. All papers will be video-recorded for public dissemination purposes. All the presentations must be delivered by their authors with the intention of promoting the debate. The Organizers will not be responsible for travel or accommodation expenses.
Key-note speaker: Luísa Cymbron (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
For more information: www.spemi.es
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