Seachanges

Music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, 1550–1800

Kate van Orden

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English

Harvard Uni.Press Academi
03 May 2022

Music; Theory of music & musicology; Music reviews & criticism; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: I Tatti Research Series

Seachanges brings together original essays examining human and cultural mobility from a musical perspective. Musicians have always been migratory frontrunners, and musical encounters have always generated nodes of cultural complexity. But hearing past musicking that took place in diaspora and foreign lands requires new methodologies designed to center unsettled lives and ephemeral practices in history.

Employing interpretive strategies from musicology, ethnomusicology, historical performance practice, sociolinguistics, and cultural history, the contributors intentionally complicate national and regional accounts of music from 1550 to 1800. Repertorial subjects include Spanish guitar music in Italy, Italian songs in Bohemia, Turkish songs in France, Jewish rituals on Corfu, Jesuit hymns in the Greek Archipelago, and Ottoman court music; further chapters recover the experiences of Indigenous musicians in colonial Latin America, the diaspora of Neapolitan singers, fictional cartographies of Baroque opera, and the careers of enslaved Black musicians in Venice and pre-revolutionary Haiti. They promote a new theoretical vocabulary that coalesces around orality, voice, performers, and performance as matters to foreground in mobility studies.

Seachanges illustrates how musical microhistories can address mobility at the macro level of Mediterranean and Atlantic Studies while respecting the tempo of individual human lives and musical timeframes.

Edited by: Kate van Orden
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 165mm,
ISBN: 9780674278400
ISBN 10: 0674278402
Series: I Tatti Research Series
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 03 May 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kate van Orden is a cultural historian and the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. Her prizewinning publications include Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France. In 2016, she received a French Medaille d'Honneur. She began a term as president of the International Musicological Society in 2022 and is also a professional performer on the baroque and classical bassoon.

Reviews for Seachanges: Music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, 1550–1800

Seachanges is a beacon of brilliant light in an ocean of present migration darkness and despair, pointing the way toward new ways of making genuinely global histories of music. -- Richard Wistreich * Journal of the American Musicological Society *