Harmony on the Edge · Harmony on the Edge. Musical Encounters Between Early Modern Europe and South America
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2022-03-01 → 2025-03-28
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 210 538 €
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- 2
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- MSCA-IF
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Накратко на български
Музикалните практики и инструментите на коренното население в Южна Америка се анализират през погледа на европейските колонизатори. Това помага да се разбере как звукът е повлиял върху възникването на хуманните науки и разграничаването между „цивилизация“ и „дивост“ по време на Просвещението.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
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Harmony on the Edge. Musical Encounters Between Early Modern Europe and South America
Harmony on the Edge explored the roles of music and sound in the ways European travellers and colonisers perceived, conceptualised, and classified Indigenous populations in South America during the early modern period. Drawing on a rich corpus of textual and visual sources, the project examined how European observers engaged with Indigenous musical practices and sensibilities; the sounds of both cultural and natural landscapes—whether described as harmonious or as noise; the bodies of musicians; and the representation, circulation, and collection of musical instruments. These European engagements with music and sound in the Americas were driven by specific epistemic and socio-political agendas that reflected, and were shaped by, contemporary concerns within Europe. A central conclusion of the project is that music served as a privileged medium for investigating human nature, human diversity, and the boundaries between human and animal species within the context of cross-cultural encounters. In this sense, music played a foundational role in the emergence of the human sciences during the Enlightenment. Practices such as collecting, describing, and representing musical instruments were central to analysing perceived degrees of ‘savagery’ and ‘civilisation,’ and to formulating historical narratives about South American Indigenous peoples. A key tension that underpinned these inquiries was whether music should be understood as a primitive and universal language, or as a product of modern civilisation and culturally specific identities. Ultimately, musical encounters became sites of cultural negotiation, appropriation, and resistance.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
Harmony on the Edge investigates how notions of music and sound were deployed during early modern global encounters to describe, categorise, and evaluate different types of human. Focusing on the territory covered by the Viceroyalty of Perú in Spanish South America, this project addresses a wide range of European authors, travellers, and missionaries who inquired into the musical customs and musical aptitudes of indigenes during the 17th and 18th centuries. It asks i) how Europeans experienced and understood the sounds and musicality of indigene South Americans, ii) how these musical experiences fitted into European scientific, political or religious agendas, and iii) which kinds of musical exchange took place between Europeans and locals. It pays special attention to the ways cross-cultural appropriations were materially expressed in the manufacture and collection of musical instruments and the physical bodies of performers and dancers. The project suggests that conceptualising the music and sound of locals was crucial in the experience of otherness, at the same time it followed a broader inquiry into the common and defining features of humankind. Building a new interdisciplinary dialogue between intellectual and colonial history, history of the human sciences, history of science, ethnomusicology, historical anthropology and material culture studies, this project proposes a novel methodology for the study of early modern encounters, and a new conceptual approach to music as a field of inquiry into the nature of human beings. This action takes place in Chile and France and involves exhaustive archival research (written, visual and material sources), academic publications, a museum exhibition, training and dissemination activities, and a secondment in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз