Creating New Spaces: Approaches to Colonial Heritage in Early Music

In the organizer's words:

The symposium deals with historically evolved structures of inequality and the question of how these can be countered and counteracted in the early music scene today. The symposium is intended to provide a space in which new strategies in early music can be imagined, discussed and stimulated together.

Many works of early music originate from the colonial era and are embedded in colonial traditions of thought. This year's symposium will examine this legacy: which colonial practices and forms of knowledge shaped early music, and which continue to shape it? What can be learned from decolonial and other power-sensitive approaches - on a theoretical, but above all on a practical level?

Several lectures, field reports and a joint discussion will examine these questions from the perspectives of art and music. The event will be held in English.

Lectures

10:00 a.m. Colonial Shadows: Toward a Decolonial Future?
Dr. Rahab Njeri, University of Cologne

10:30 Diversity and Sensitivity Reading: A Practical Approach to Problematic Content in Opera and Oratorio
Leyla Ercan, Critical Classics

11:00 am Transculturation of Sound: Music and Colonialism in Colonial Hispanic America
Hugo Miguel de Rodas Sanchez, lutenist / guitarist

12:00Origins of Dances: Colonial Narrative in Early Music Dances
Jorge Silva