Organizer Kate van Orden (Harvard University)
One sea change in the study of European history is the growing interest in migration. Whereas earlier research tended to operate under the presumption that Early Modern society was largely autochthonous, The conference is funded with support from the historians are now exploring the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the patterns of travel, migration, scholarly programs and publications funds in the names of Myron and Sheila Gilmore, Jean-Francois Malle, Andrew W. pilgrimage, and slavery that disrupt Mellon, Robert Lehman, Craig and Barbara Smyth, such nationalistic claims to ethnic and Malcolm Hewitt Wiener homogeneity. Villa I Tatti This interdisciplinary conference Via di Vincigliata 26, 50135 Florence, Italy examines the circulation of +39 055 603 251 [email protected] music and musicians throughout www.itatti.harvard.edu the Mediterranean diaspora. It concentrates on music as a migratory frontrunner and privileges displacement as its Front Cover image: critical lens with the specific Persian Dancer Maverdi Kolbaşı aim of crystalizing new in Abdulcelil Levni, (d. 1732), Album [TSM, H. 2164], Music in the theoretical approaches to Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi mobility. Across a series of Istanbul contributions grounded Mediterranean in history, anthropology, Back Cover image: demography, literature, and Pietro Railich, music, we ask how border- Lute, 1669, Diaspora crossing histories can shift The Metropolitan Museum of Art our critical appraisal of New York cultural production and, An International Conference conversely, how the study of This conference is open to the public with no charge musical performance can help 18 - 19 May 2017 us sight instances of ethnic encounter, Villa I Tatti, Florence creolization, and cultural métissage that are otherwise difficult to trace. THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017 THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017 (cont.) FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017 (cont.)
Introductory Remarks 15.00 Dinko Fabris (Università della Basilicata and 11:15 Pedro Memelsdorff (ESMUC Barcelona, 09.30 Alina Payne (Villa I Tatti / Harvard University) Conservatorio di Napoli) Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Université de Tours) Kate van Orden (Harvard University) Musician, Neapolitan, Migrant: The Origins of the Staging Slavery in French Haiti Seventeenth-Century Diaspora of Neapolitan Music and Musicians Roots and Routes 11:45 David Irving (University of Melbourne) Chair: Martin Allan Brody (Wellesley College) Early Modern European Music and the ‘Great Divergence’ 15:30 Geoff Baker (Royal Holloway, University of London) 09.45 Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University) Mobility and Stasis, Sameness and Difference: Music The Roots of Reciprocal Diasporas: A Case of Italy and Social Ordering in Colonial Latin America 12:15 Discussion and Ethiopia
10.15 Guido Guerzoni (University “Luigi Bocconi”) Buffet lunch Provenance and Careers of Este Court Musicians, 16:00 Discussion 13.00 1471-1627
10:45 Discussion 16:30 Tea
11.15 Coffee FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017 The Ottoman Empire Chair: Michael W. Wyatt (Independent Scholar) 11.30 Scott Edwards (Universität Wien) Hegemonies ‘Voi che venist’ armati’: Music, Language, Chair: Bonnie Gordon (University of Virginia) 14.30 Francesco Spagnolo (University of California, and Mobilities in Seventeenth-Century Bohemia Berkeley) A Sephardic Big Tent: Migrations, Identities, and Synagogue Songs in Corfu, Greece 12.00 Kate van Orden (Harvard University) 09:30 Olivia Bloechl (University of Pittsburgh) Songs in Unexpected Places: Defining Political Geographies of the Operatic Underworld the Vernacular Renaissance 15:00 Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University) Musical Conversations and Encyclopaedism 12.30 Discussion“Th 10:00 Emily Wilbourne (Queens College and the Graduate in Istanbul in the Late Seventeenth Century Center, CUNY) 13.00 Buffet lunch ‘Scipione affricano’, Black African 15:30 Jordi Savall (UNESCO Artist for Peace) The Spanish Empire 10:30 Discussion Chair: Stefano Lorenzetti (Conservatorio di Vicenza) 16:00 Discussion 14.30 Philippe Canguilhem (Université de Toulouse 2, 11:00 Coffee Jean-Jaurès) Encounters in the Margins: Considering the Local 16:30 Tea in the Lilly Library Music Manuscripts from Sixteenth-Century Guatemala