Neogranadine Music: a Space Inhabited by Women

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Published: Nov 10, 2020
Keywords:
Colonial Women, Nueva Granada, Colonial Music, Literature and Music, Women and Music

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Sergio Pérez Álvarez
Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira
Clara E. Herrera
University of Illinois-Chicago

Abstract

The article explores the contact between women and music in the Nueva Granada cultural context. With support from primary and secondary sources –including literary texts– it is confirmed that women had access to musical instruments, and teachers of music and singing, and participated as consumers, composers, and performers of music. In addition to exploring the relationship of women to music within religious communities, this article explores the impact of monastic music on secular female society -- contributing to fill a bibliographic gap. As this work shows, music makes possible a new ludic space in the construction of the feminine identity in Colonial times.

 

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Vol. 56 (2020)
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Author Biographies

Sergio Pérez Álvarez, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

He is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Literature Department at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira (2020).  He completed his Ph. D. in Literature from Universidad de Antioquia, following a Master of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes and Bachelor in Literary Studies at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His research interests  include Colombian and Latin American literature, cultural and postcolonial studies, print and book culture studies.
 

Clara E. Herrera, University of Illinois-Chicago

Clara E. Herrera received her Ph. D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Las místicas de la Nueva Granada: tres casos de búsqueda de la perfección y construcción de la santidad (2013), as well as several book chapters and articles in academic journals. Her research is devoted to different aspects of colonial women in New Granada.  She has worked as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Lake Forest College and the University of Illinois at Chicago.