PROGRAM
Race and Empire in Global Music History, 1500-1800
A research conference organized by Olivia Bloechl (Music) and Molly Warsh (History)
March 30-31, 2018
Humanities Center (CL 602)
University of Pittsburgh
March 30, 2018
8:30–9 a.m.: Welcome and preliminary remarks
9 a.m.–12 p.m.: Music, Race, and Indigeneity in the Americas (Glenda Goodman, University of Pennsylvania, chair)
Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University
An Indigenized Mozart: ‘Ave verum corpus’ in Labrador
Bonnie Gordon, University of Virginia
Echoes of the Haitian Revolution
Rogério Budasz, University of California, Riverside
Between Social Stratification and Racial Containment: "Opera" Companies in Mato Grosso and Rio de Janeiro, 1780-1820s
Glenda Goodman (respondent)
12–1 p.m.: Lunch
1–3 p.m.: Blackness and Black Musicians in European Music (Kate Van Orden, Harvard University, chair)
Eric Rice, University of Connecticut
Orlando di Lasso’s Musical Representations of Black African Slaves in Sixteenth-Century Munich
Emily Wilbourne, CUNY Graduate Center/Villa i Tatti
Finding Giovannino “il Moro”: Looking for Blackness in the Archives of Medici Florence
Kate Van Orden (respondent)
3–3:30 p.m.: Break and refreshments
3:30–5 p.m.
Keynote address
Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University
Casop: A Requiem for Rice
March 31, 2018
9 a.m.–12 p.m.: Sound and Song in the Caribbean (Chair TBD)
Molly Warsh, University of Pittsburgh
Soundscapes of Labor in the Global Early Modern Caribbean
Pedro Memelsdorff, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya/ Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Une âme? Staging Slavery in French Haiti
Julia Prest, University of St Andrews
Color-conscious Comparisons and Color-blind Casting in Colonial Saint-Domingue
Respondent TBD
12–1 p.m.: Lunch
1–3 p.m.: Music in Eurasian Encounters (Hyun Kyong Chang, Yale University, chair)
Makoto Harris Takao, Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Music as Local Agency in Japanese Christian Communities of the Sixteenth Century
Lester Hu, University of Chicago
Trans-Eurasian Resonances of Two Eighteenth-Century Music querelles
Hyun Kyong Chang, Yale University, respondent
3–3:30 p.m.: Break and refreshments
3–5 p.m.: Coloniality/Modernity and the Times of Music History: A Roundtable with Walter Mignolo (Molly Warsh, University of Pittsburgh, chair)
Edda Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University
Olivia Bloechl, University of Pittsburgh
Katherine Schofield, King’s College, London
Gabriel Solis, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Walter Mignolo, Duke University (respondent)