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

Session

Soundscapes of the Western Mediterranean: Agents and Practices

FP29

12 Jul 2025, 09:00

Aula 10

Conveners

Soundscapes of the Western Mediterranean: Agents and Practices

• Lluís Bertran (Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales)

95. Remapping València in the Festival Borderlands: Musical Repertoire and the Reconfiguration of the Everyday

12/07/2025, 09:00

Free paper

In festivals, where time and space are experienced in ways that exceed everyday temporal and geographical boundaries, the border is not simply a two-dimensional dividing line cordoning off locals from the rest of the world. Through their aesthetic and performative modes, festivals straddle the normative borders that frame everyday life to produce a festival borderland, where new modes of...

162. Echoes of the Mare Nostrum: Sonic Performativities and Identity Encoding in the Soundspaces of the Crown of Aragon

12/07/2025, 09:20

Free paper

During the Early Modern period, processions disrupted daily work activities, integrating ordinary time with moments of closing workshops to engage in devotional practices. In the cities of the Crown of Aragon connected to the Mediterranean, a common feature was the prevalence of processions. In this context, cathedrals functioned as vertical acoustic epicentres, emitting sonic signals that...

185. Origins and spread of marching bands in Southern Italy (1800-1870): sources, practices, circulation.

12/07/2025, 09:40

Free paper

The paper focuses on the musical practices in southern Italy - civil and military - of ‘fanfares’ and the first ‘bands’ between 1800 and 1870, indicating the relevance of their ‘sound’ and ‘colour’ even within a written and cultured tradition.
The reconnaissance of musical sources and archival documentation, carried out on a sample basis, shows the predominant role that wind orchestras played...