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SUMMARY:Colonial musical cultures: the case of early modern Manila - David
  Irving\, (Clare)
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CONTACT:Su Lin Lewis
DESCRIPTION:[Please note--this will be a lunchtime seminar. Sandwiches wil
 l be provided in the Rushmore room from 12.45pm]\n\nIn this presentation I
  intend\, firstly\, to theorise the concept of a 'colonial musical culture
 '\, and\, secondly\, to examine the case of early modern Manila and the Ph
 ilippine Islands according to these precepts. Although there have been num
 erous isolated case studies of colonial musical cultures in musicological 
 literature of the past half-century\, the colonial musical culture as a gl
 obal phenomenon has\, so far\, defied universal classification or analysis
  within historical musicology. I hope to address this lacuna in part\, and
  also to demonstrate that my choice of case study today is by no means mer
 ely a detailed elaboration on what might be perceived as a relatively peri
 pheral area of global musical practice. It may\, rather\, represent a theo
 retical paradigm for extra-European music history\; in certain ways it als
 o exposes the means by which the frontiers of historical musicology can be
  extended to accommodate past musical cultures which have arisen from the 
 colonial experience. The Spanish city of Manila\, founded in 1571\, was du
 bbed the 'Rome of the East' and was the religious\, governmental and educa
 tional capital of the Philippine Islands until its complete destruction by
  Allied bombs dislodging Japanese forces in 1945. A meeting place of cultu
 res\, it was arguably the most important European settlement in East and S
 outheast Asia\, and also one of the most multicultural. In treating early 
 modern Manila and the Philippines as a case study of a colonial musical cu
 lture\, I wish to address four main points: 1. the importation of European
  institutions and musical traditions\; 2. musical ethnography\; 3. transcu
 lturation in music\; and 4. syncretism of genres.
LOCATION:Rushmore Room\, St. Catharine's College
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