In this pre-concert lecture, noted White scholar Dr. Yavet Boyadjiev will explore José White’s connections with some of the most interesting musicians of his time, all from diverse backgrounds. We will hear about White’s friendship with his fellow Paris Conservatory students and his pioneering support for female students and colleagues. We will also learn about White’s collaboration with other Cuban musicians who were taking part in the movement for independence from Spain.  In all, the lecture will widen our understanding of José White, his music, and his circle.

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Blattner Lecture Series: Yavet Boyadjiev Virtual Lecture hosted by Kate van Orden

Hanna Boys Center

Musicology’s embrace of what is being called global music history is proving extremely useful as a place from which to contest Eurocentric histories of music and develop new working methods equipped to address the meaningfulness of music in places where cultures, languages, and people were in constant contact. In this talk, 1.) I begin by outlining the analytic categories employed in migration studies and underscoring their usefulness to music historians. 2.) I go on to ask some larger questions designed to incite discussions concerning matters of scale. What is the relationship between micro and macro history in musicological research? How can musicology best operate at the scale of seas and oceans? 3.) I wrap up by setting musicological research in perspective by comparing it to hard forms of world history designed to discover global unities created by economic, colonial, and—eventually—industrial processes. Case studies drawn from recent scholarship are threaded throughout.

Kate van Orden | Mapping Music and Migration: Questions of Scale

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

In this talk, van Orden discusses the unique sociability of consort playing, the history of choirboy consorts in early modern London, and the social lives of viols, then and now.

Kate van Orden

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Jul 13, 2024

Blattner Lecture Series: Yavet Boyadjiev Virtual Lecture hosted by Kate van Orden · Valley of the Moon Music Festival

Apr 16, 2024

Kate van Orden | Mapping Music and Migration: Questions of Scale · UC Berkeley Department of Music

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