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

Session

Misc. 3: Lost pidgins and Basque amateurs

FP20

11 Jul 2025, 09:00

Aula 8

Conveners

Misc. 3: Lost pidgins and Basque amateurs

• Sergi González Gonzalez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

177. ‘Bilbao Song’: Exoticism and Modernism in the Basque Amateur Scene during the ‘Jazz Age’ (1920-1930)

11/07/2025, 09:00

Free paper

The economic and cultural progress of the Spanish Basque Country in the early 20th Century fostered a flourishing of all sorts of philarmonic activities. Notably, initiatives related to the so-called ‘Basque renaissance’ and its ensuing musical Nationalism (such as the compilation of folk songbooks or the development of vernacular operas) are well-documented, as well as other efforts to...

176. Moresca and Sabir: Lost heritage of the Mediterranean Basin (remote)

11/07/2025, 09:20

Free paper

Used from the era of the crusades till the first half of the 19th century, Sabir was a common language of the Mediterranean countries: a mix of French, Genoese, Venetian, Sicilian, Portuguese, Spanish and Arabic. Also known as Le Petit Moresque, it has been registered in a dictionary in 1830 and it has survived only in musical compositions called Moresche and Villanelle, till the last century....