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

Session

Historiography: new readings

FP30

12 Jul 2025, 11:00

Aula 7

Conveners

Historiography: new readings

• Ignacio Prats Arolas (Conservatorio Superior “Joaquín Rodrigo” de Valencia)

102. The 1580 Culture Quake in Spain

12/07/2025, 11:00

Free paper

In Spanish music history, the beginning of the Baroque represents an unsolved problem. Literary critics recognize a major break around 1580 (Montesinos 1959), as reflected in two closely related novelties: the rise of the comedia nueva, and the flourishing of the romance nuevo. I argue that this disruption was a broader cultural transformation that also involved music and whose key feature was...

163. Questioning Connectivity and Chronology in Global Music History

12/07/2025, 11:20

Free paper

A key objective of global history has been to highlight connections and comparisons across vast distances and time-periods. Global music history shares that tendency, but also embraces relativistic studies of diverse local musical pasts that promote the de-centring of traditional historical-musicological focus. Within both fields, emphases on connectivity reflect an intricate relationship with...

25. Women Music Historians in Greece (19th–21st Century): Interconnections and Influences

12/07/2025, 11:40

Free paper

The historiography of music in Greece, dating back to the late 19th century, has been profoundly shaped by the significant contributions of women such as Athina Seremeti (late 19th–early 20th century), Avra Theodoropoulou (1880–1963), and Kaiti Romanou (1939–2020). Each of these scholars introduced groundbreaking advancements to music historiography: Seremeti was the first to translate a...