‎Marie-Alexis Colin, Iain Fenlon, Matthew Laube (eds)‎
‎Theatres of Belief: Music and Conversion in the Early Modern City‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 312 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:11 b/w, 12 col., 10 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503598871.‎

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‎Summary These eleven essays, all centrally concerned with the intimate relationship between sound, religion, and society in the early modern world, present a sequence of test cases located in a wide variety of urban environments in Europe and the Americas. Written by an international cast of acclaimed historians and musicologists, they explore in depth the interrelated notions of conversion and confessionalisation in the shared belief that the early modern city was neither socially static nor religiously uniform. With its examples drawn from the Holy Roman Empire and the Southern Netherlands, the pluri-religious Mediterranean, and the colonial Americas both North and South, this book takes discussion of the urban soundscape, so often discussed in purely traditional terms of European institutional histories, to a new level of engagement with the concept of a totally immersive acoustic environment as conceptualised by R. Murray Schafer. From the Protestants of Douai, a bastion of the Catholic Reformation, to the bi-confessional city of Augsburg and seventeenth-century Farmington in Connecticut, where the indigenous Indian population fashioned a separate Christian entity, the intertwined religious, musical, and emotional lives of specifically grounded communities of early modern men and women are here vividly brought to life. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Marie-Alexis Colin, Iain Fenlon and Matthew Laube 1. Converting Tondalos: Musical Culture on a Lutheran Spiritual Pilgrimage of the Late Sixteenth Century Martin Christ (University of Erfurt) 2. Catholicising the City: Music, Ritual and Identity in Sixteenth-Century C rdoba Iain Fenlon (King's College, Cambridge) 3. Sound and the Conversion of Space in Early Modern Germany Alexander J. Fisher (University of British Columbia) 4. Music Books for Lima Cathedral and their Social Context in the Early Seventeenth Century: Black Slaves as a Guarantee for Producing a New Plainchant Library Mar a Gembero-Ust rroz (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient ficas) 5. Land and Conversion: New Frameworks for Colonial American Hymnody Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania) 6. Lutheranising through Music: Tracing the Confessional Soundscapes of Early Seventeenth-Century Wolfenb ttel and Braunschweig Inga Mai Groote (Zurich University) 7. Sound Conversion? Music, Hearing and Sacred Space in the Long Reformation in Ulm, 1531-1629 Philip Hahn (University of T bingen) 8. The Musical Cultures of Dissent and Anti-Catholicism in Counter-Reformation Douai Matthew Laube (Birkbeck, University of London) 9. A Jesuit Ceremony of Spiritual Exercises with Music in the Seventeenth Century: Devotional Connections between Perpignan, Barcelona, Madrid, Granada and Archbishop Palafox Emilio Ros-F bregas (Instituci n Mil y Fontanals, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient ficas) 10. Bells, Confessional Conflict and the Dutch Revolt, c. 1566-1585 Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes University) 11. Music for an Endless Conversion: A Cycle of Offertories from Jesuit Paraguay Leonardo Waisman (University of C rdoba, Argentina)‎