La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall\u27Isola d\u27Alcina (The Rescue of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina) - Francesca Caccini

The Performance Practice Institute (PPI) at the Caine College of the Arts embodies a project-based approach to the study of the history of performance, which enriches the intellectual and artistic life of the students involved while making accessible to Utah audiences exciting concerts of lesser known repertoires, especially chose from the pre-1750 period. Events in this series are held in the spring, with a yearly alternation between larger projects and more modest events that build upon the previous year\u27s activities.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/music_programs/1051/thumbnail.jp

The Rise and Fall, and the Rise (Again) of Feminist Research in Music: 'What Goes Around Comes Around'

This article reports from a two-phase study that involved an analysis of the extant literature followed by a three-part survey answered by seventy-one women composers. Through these theoretical and empirical data, the authors explore the relationship between gender and music’s symbolic and cultural capital. Bourdieu’s theory of the habitus is employed to understand the gendered experiences of the female composers who participated in the survey. The article suggests that these female composers have different investments in gender but that, overall, they reinforce the male habitus given that the female habitus occupies a subordinate position in relation to that of the male. The findings of the study also suggest a connection between contemporary feminism and the attitudes towards gender held by the participants. The article concludes that female composers classify themselves, and others, according to gendered norms and that these perpetuate the social order in music in which the male norm dominates

Listening to the Dead: Toward 21st-century Music Histories

This paper assumes as a premise that music histories, like all histories, result from a conscious choosing of one’s cultural ancestors. By asking who ‘the ancestors’ would logically be for musicians active in the contemporary United States, it implies the connections between institutional music histories and the ideological formation of local or national identities, and acknowledges the increasing difficulty of managing those connections in an era of widespread migration and the oft-proclaimed decline of nation-states in favor of globalizing entities. Determinedly recommending neither universal or global adjustments to music historical pedagogy, it asserts profound structural changes in music history curricula as inevitable, names the network of economic and ideological interests against which curricular reformers struggle, and reaffirms the relevance of music history as a way to learn from the dead how it could be to be human.This paper assumes as a premise that music histories, like all histories, result from a conscious choosing of one’s cultural ancestors. By asking who ‘the ancestors’ would logically be for musicians active in the contemporary United States, it implies the connections between institutional music histories and the ideological formation of local or national identities, and acknowledges the increasing difficulty of managing those connections in an era of widespread migration and the oft-proclaimed decline of nation-states in favor of globalizing entities. Determinedly recommending neither universal or global adjustments to music historical pedagogy, it asserts profound structural changes in music history curricula as inevitable, names the network of economic and ideological interests against which curricular reformers struggle, and reaffirms the relevance of music history as a way to learn from the dead how it could be to be human.

Elisabeth Le Guin. 2006. Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

In early 2006, I did something I had never done before. I sent a musicology book as a gift to a friend. No, to two friends, one a former musicologist who now works as a gambist, the other a former musicologist who now works as a writer. I wrote to each of them that Elisabeth Le Guin's Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology had restored my faith in musicology

8. ‘La stiava dolente in suono di canto’

In late February 1607, two central Italian courts invited select guests to celebrate Carnival by witnessing an entirely sung dramatic spectacle in one of their ruling families’ palaces. Each spectacle was meant to be ephemeral, yet each had profound consequences both for its composer’s career and for the then-emergent genre we know as opera. One — composed and performed by and for elite men purportedly interested in the story of Orpheus and Euridice as an allegory of Platonist ethics — was pu..

« Vous êtes dans un lieu hors du monde... » : la musique dans les centres de détention de la « guerre contre la terreur »

En s’appuyant sur les témoignages d’interrogateurs et d’anciens détenus ainsi que sur des documents militaires non classifiés, cet article traite des différents usages de la « musique forte » dans les centres de détention américains de la « Guerre contre la Terreur ». Une enquête menée sur les méthodes employées à la base aérienne de Bagram, en Afghanistan ; à Camp Nama (Bagdad), en Irak ; à la base opérationnelle avancée Tiger (Al-Qaim), en Irak ; à la base aérienne de Mosul, en Irak ; à Guantánamo, à Cuba ; au Camp Cropper (Bagdad), en Irak ; ainsi que dans les « dark prisons » de 2002 à 2006, montre que l’utilisation de « musique forte » était une composante habituelle et ouvertement connue des « interrogatoires renforcés ». Dans les deux éditions de 1992 et de 2006 des manuels opérationnels pour les interrogatoires de l’armée américaine, la « musique forte » était présentée comme l’un des outils – aux côtés de la « coercition sexuelle » – de l’approche interrogatoire connue sous le nom de « futility », visant à persuader des détenus de l’inanité de leur résistance. L’armée américaine enseigne elle-même des techniques de résistance au « music program ». La fin de cet article est dédiée au récit d’un jeune entrepreneur de citoyenneté américaine travaillant à Bagdad, qui a enduré 97 jours de détention militaire et de « music program » en 2006 – et qui a su y résister.Based on first-person accounts of interrogators and former detainees as well as unclassified military documents, this article outlines the variety of ways that “loud music” has been used in the detention camps of the United States‘ “global war on terror.” A survey of practices at Bagram Air Force Base, Afghanistan; Camp Nama (Baghdad), Iraq; Forward Operating Base Tiger (Al-Qaim), Iraq; Mosul Air Force Base, Iraq; Guantánamo, Cuba; Camp Cropper (Baghdad), Iraq; and at the “dark prisons” from 2002 to 2006 reveals that the use of “loud music” was a standard, openly acknowledged component of “harsh interrogation.” Such music was understood to be one medium of the approach known as “futility” in both the 1992 and the 2006 editions of the US Army’s field manual for interrogation. The purpose of such “futility” techniques as “loud music” and “gender coercion” is to persuade a detainee that resistance to interrogation is futile, yet the military establishment itself teaches techniques by which “the music program” can be resisted. The article concludes with the first-person account of a young US citizen, working in Baghdad as a contractor, who endured military detention and “the music program” for ninety-seven days in mid-2006—a man who knew how to resist

Afterword to “You are in a place that is out of the world…”: Music in the Detention Camps of the “Global War on Terror”

The six years since this article was first published have seen a slow increase in public knowledge of the United States' acoustical practices during the so-called “war on terror.” My own research expanded to include the first-person accounts of several more released detainees, whose imprisonment in the CIA's “dark prison,” in Kandahar and Guantànamo included both “interrogational” and “terroristic” torture. In addition, two important academic initiatives have helped to contextualize acoustica..

Acoustemologies in contact: sounding subjects and modes of listening in early modernity

In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early modern period. They examine how cultural configurations of sound impacted communication, comprehension, and the categorisation of people. Addressing questions of identity, difference, sound, and subjectivity in global early modernity, these authors share the conviction that the body itself is the most intimate of contact zones, and that the culturally contingent systems by which sounds made sense could be foreign to early modern listeners and to present day scholars.Drawing on a global range of archival evidence--from New France and New Spain, to the slave ships of the Middle Passage, to China, Europe, and the Mediterranean court environment--this collection challenges the privileged position of European acoustical practices within the discipline of global-historical musicology. The discussion of Black and non-European experiences demonstrates how the production of 'the canon' in the cosmopolitan centres of colonial empires was underpinned by processes of human exploitation and extraction of resources. As such, this text is a timely response to calls within the discipline to decolonise music history and to contextualise the canonical works of the European past.This volume is accessible to a wide and interdisciplinary audience, not only within musicology, but also to those interested in early modern global history, sound studies, race, and slavery