Musical Exoticism in the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1918)

12 – 14 May 2022, Oviedo

The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca, the Research Group ERASMUSH of the University of Oviedo (Spain) and the Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française of Venice are pleased to promote the symposium «Musical Exoticism in the Long Nineteenth-Century (1789-1918)», to be held from Thursday 12 until Saturday 14 May 2022.

The sound image of the otherness has been a continuous source of inspiration for Western music. The interest in ethnic – Arabs, Moors, Gypsies or Jews – and geographical otherness – Turkey, Egypt, Orient or Spain – discovered new worlds with unfamiliar musical traditions that became exotic to Westerners. From Mozart to Falla, the composers’ intent to recreate/assimilate these exotic traditions generated an extensive repertoire of paradigms in the long nineteenth century that tried to conduct the listener beyond into another world. The analysis of this corpus also provides a deep and comprehensive approach to contemporary musical culture in dialogue with literature and figurative arts.

This conference explores the concept of musical exoticism in a broader sense, revisiting the two Locke’s patterns: the ‘Exotic-Style Only’ and ‘All the Music in Full Context’ paradigms, also considering the analysis not only of the musical creation’s cultural and political contexts but also of the various exotic repertoires and their critical reception.

The programme committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are welcome:

Exoticism as transculturation: a new way of assimilation/appropriation to the geographical and ethnic peripheries
Synergies and dialogues between exoticist music, literature and figurative arts
The Oriental, the National, the ethnic or the pittoresque: conforming stereotypes in musical languages
The imperialism and the musical exoticism
The autoexoticism: searching for difference in one’s own culture
Exotic scores with Western techniques: borrowings, quotes, and musical recreations
Exoticism as a path to modernity at the end of the 19th-century
Analysing the exotic music: languages, sources of inspiration, technical devices, paradigms
The Exotic repertoire’s reception: beyond the portrayal of the East in the Western mind
Self-awareness of the exotic condition: the reception of the exoticist Western music in its original ‘exotic’ contexts
Critics’ and scholars’ approaches to the exotic repertoire

Programme Committee

María Encina Cortizo (Universidad de Oviedo)
Roberto Illiano (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)
Étienne Jardin (Palazetto Bru Zane)
Fulvia Morabito (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)
Massimiliano Sala (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini)
Ramón Sobrino (Universidad de Oviedo)

Keynote Speakers

Jean-Pierre Bartoli (Sorbonne Université / IReMus)
Ramón Sobrino (Universidad de Oviedo)

The official languages of the conference are English, French, Italian and Spanish. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a miscellaneous volume.

Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and one page of biographical information.

All proposals should be submitted by email no later than 6 February 2022 to conferences@luigiboccherini.org. Please include your name, contact details (postal address, e-mail and telephone number) and (if applicable) your affiliation with your proposal.

The committee will make its final decision on the abstracts by the end of February, and contributors will be informed immediately thereafter. Further information about the programme, registration, travel, and accommodation will be announced after that date.

For any additional information, please contact:

Dr. Massimiliano Sala
conferences@luigiboccherini.org
www.luigiboccherini.org

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