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

Session

Musical images and nation-building

FP10

9 Jul 2025, 15:30

Aula 9

Conveners

Musical images and nation-building

• Laura Tunbridge

24. Mediterranean Dialogue and Auto-Orientalism: Ontology of Spain

09/07/2025, 15:30

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The question of Spain by European musical Romanticism has to be posed in ontic (ontology: the essence) and epistemic (epistemology: the ways of understanding it) terms. On the one hand, the question of Spain's being, of what it was in itself, is conditioned by the way it was seen by the European powers in the natural course of colonialism since the 19th century. On the other hand, Spain's...

61. Llorenç Barber and Darmstadt: The Valencian Perspective during the Francoist Era

09/07/2025, 15:50

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Llorenç Barber’s involvement in the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt during the late 1960s and 1970s stands as a critical moment in his development as a composer and a figure in the Spanish avant-garde. In this paper, I explore Barber’s experience at Darmstadt, both as an observer and participant in a musical world that contrasted sharply with the political climate of Franco’s Spain....

65. From the Mediterranean to Cuyo. Two versions of Hispanism in the Regional History of Music in the first half of the 20th century (remote)

09/07/2025, 16:10

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This paper explores two modalities of aesthetic reception of Hispanism, as a Mediterranean cultural current arrived and renewed since the Spanish conquest, in two musical fields in the region of Cuyo (Argentinian central-western) in the first half of the 20th century. Differences can be observed in the appropriation of poetry, the Castilian language and the European musical heritage, which...