Events
Cosponsors
- University Seminar on Medieval Studies
- Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- Center for Ethnomusicology
- Department of Music
- Department of History
- Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
- Foundation for Iberian Music, CUNY
- Medieval Studies, CUNY
- Center for Latin American and Iberian Music, University of California at Riverside
Poetry, song, and other forms of performance in Arabic, Latin, Hebrew, and Romance are central sources for the cultural and social history of medieval Iberia. This international conference brings together scholars of music, literature, and history to reflect on the insights that the sounding arts and their context can offer into Iberian communities and the interactions among them. Sounding Communities is dedicated to the memory of Maria Rosa Menocal (1953-2012), whose influential book The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain was widely read as an eloquent account of peaceful coexistence. Although her vision of convivencia is contested, Menocal's contributions continue to inform the study of medieval Iberia and to remind us of the prevalence of cultural interchange through music and poetry.
Note: Thursday, February 27 panels will be at CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room; Friday, February 28 panels will be at Faculty House, Columbia University
Program
time3:45pm - 4:00pm EDT
Arrival and Introduction at CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room
time4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Session One
Chair
Patricia Grieve
Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor in the Humanities
Columbia University
“Traffic and Trade in Music and Musicians: Conduits of Courtly Culture in Medieval Iberia”
Dwight Reynolds
Professor of Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
"The Andalusi Turn: The Nuba in Mediterranean History”
Carl Davila
Professor of History
State University of New York at Brockport
“Marketing Mysticism: Shushtari from the Medieval Suq to the Sacred Music Festival Circuit”
Lourdes Alvarez
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
University of New Haven
time5:30pm - 5:45pm EDT
Break
time5:45pm - 6:30pm EDT
Lecture and Demonstration
The Sephardic Romancero
Judith Cohen
Ethnomusicologist
York University, Toronto
time6:45pm - 7:45pm EDT
Closing Remarks
time8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Concert by the New York Andalus Ensemble
Samuel Thomas
Artistic Director
New York Andalus Ensemble
time9:15am - 9:30am EDT
Arrival and Introduction at Faculty House, Columbia University
time9:30am - 10:30am EDT
Session Two
Chair
Jesús R. Velasco
Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Columbia University
“Medieval Iberian Song in its Mediterranean Context: from Andalusian muwashshahat to the Cantigas de Santa Maria”
Manuel Pedro Ferreira
Associate Professor of Musicology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
“Social Antagonisms in the Serranillas"
Benjamin Liu
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
University of California at Riverside
time10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Break
time11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Session Three
Chair
Antoni Pizà
Director
Foundation for Iberian Music, CUNY
“The Mozarabic Chant as a Model for the Construction of Cultural Identity”
Carmen Julia Gutiérrez
Professor of Musicology
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
“Processions in Context: Ritual and Music for Assumption feasts at Seville Cathedral During the Late Middle Ages”
Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Professor of Musicology
Granada
time12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Break Two; Visit Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition
time2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Session Four
Chair
Adam Kosto
Professor of History
Columbia University
“The Verona Orationale as a Witness to Visigothic Liturgy, Chant, and Exegesis”
Rebecca Maloy
Associate Professor of Musicology
University of Colorado, Boulder College of Music
“The Antiphonary of Leon and its Prologues”
Susana Zapke
Professor and Guest Researcher of Musicology
Austrian Academy of Sciences
“The Infanta Speaks: Court and Family in the Refounding of the See of Tuy, 1071”
Lucy Pick
Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity in the Divinity School; Associate Faculty in the Department of History
University of Chicago Divinity School
time3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Break Three
time4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Closing Discussion
Moderator
Seth Kimmel
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Columbia University
Discussant
Alessandra Ciucci
Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
Northeastern University
Discussant
Don Randel
Professor Emeritus of Music
University of Chicago
Participants
- Patricia Grieve Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor in the Humanities Columbia University
- Jesús R. Velasco Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures Columbia University
- Antoni Pizà Director Foundation for Iberian Music, CUNY
- Adam Kosto Professor of History Columbia University
- Dwight Reynolds Professor of Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
- Carl Davila Professor of History State University of New York at Brockport
- Judith Cohen Ethnomusicologist York University, Toronto
- Lourdes Alvarez Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences University of New Haven
- Samuel Thomas Artistic Director New York Andalus Ensemble
- Manuel Pedro Ferreira Associate Professor of Musicology Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- Benjamin Liu Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies University of California at Riverside
- Carmen Julia Gutiérrez Professor of Musicology Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Juan Ruiz Jiménez Professor of Musicology Granada
- Rebecca Maloy Associate Professor of Musicology University of Colorado, Boulder College of Music
- Susana Zapke Professor and Guest Researcher of Musicology Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Lucy Pick Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity in the Divinity School; Associate Faculty in the Department of History University of Chicago Divinity School
- Alessandra Ciucci Lecturer in Ethnomusicology Northeastern University
- Don Randel Professor Emeritus of Music University of Chicago
- Seth Kimmel Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures Columbia University