Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries). IMS Intercongressional Symposium

Session

Performers: Exile and Displacement

FP3

Jul 9, 2025, 9:00 AM

Aula 9

Conveners

Performers: Exile and Displacement

• Laura Tunbridge

47. Negotiating Artistic Identity in the Context of Migration and Exile: The Case of Clara Haskil

7/9/25, 9:00 AM

Free paper

Clara Haskil was one of the most important pianists of the 20th century and the first prominent Romanian pianist. Growing up in a politically and ideologically fragmented Europe permeated by nationalist ideologies that promoted eugenics and marginalized Jewish communities, Haskil's identity as a Sephardic Jewish musician placed her at the intersection of many cultural and social challenges...

173. Inti-Illimani's Mediterranean Music and the Alchemy of Exile (1973–1988)

7/9/25, 9:20 AM

Free paper

The prolonged exile in Rome of the Chilean new song group Inti-illimani (1967-), slowly but intensely linked the band with the Italian Mediterranean culture, with which Chileans had had little direct contact. After feeding their curiosity with these new sonorities, instruments and genres, the band's director, Horacio Salinas, began to compose Mediterranean-inspired instrumental music to...

31. Italian Arab Musical Encounters (1880s-1930s): Sound and Power

7/9/25, 9:40 AM

Free paper

This paper concerns the histories of mobility and movement in the Mediterranean through music. It aims to address musical exchanges between Italians and Tunisians that followed French occupation (1881) and between Italians and Egyptians developed during Italian migrations (1920s). Firstly, through several fieldworks in Tunis (2015-2017) and Marseille (2023), and archival research, focusing on...