Descripción del proyecto
Cantos religiosos que cambian identidades y roles de género
La interpretación pública de cánticos evoca un sentimiento de unidad, una expresión de identidad común sobre divisiones de tipo político, social, histórico, entre otras. No obstante, se han realizado pocas investigaciones sobre las múltiples influencias de la música litúrgica en la formación de creencias religiosas, identidades y roles de género en Europa. El proyecto ReSound, financiado con fondos europeos, se centrará en el significativo impacto de la composición e interpretación de los cantos llanos en los esfuerzos por recrear redes e identidades de devoción devastadas durante el período de la Reforma en Europa. El proyecto investigará la forma en que la representación femenina en las celebraciones reformadas de los santos influyó en las expectativas e ideas de género de las comunidades. También desvelará la función musical y devocional de las beguinas y otras mujeres semirreligiosas en las revueltas religiosas.
Objetivo
In times of socio-political upheaval, reconstructed religious identities reshape ideas, communities, and culture. In early modern Europe, the Reformation shattered networks of belief. Reformers rebuilt communities by revising traditional forms of worship and their music. Plainchant was integral to their efforts. It was inexorably tied to liturgies, and its localised melodies crafted and communicated religious identities. Chant was especially essential when confronting powerful religious influencers: the saints. Lutherans reinterpreted saints as accessible, gendered exemplars of the well-ordered protestant life. The use of plainchant provided a link with the past, but its textual and melodic revision emphasised the devotional divide. Despite the crucial role of musical saints’ cults in rebuilding religious identities and networks, the extent of their influence is unknown. This project employs an innovative transregional and interconfessional approach to investigate the imposition, individuation, and intersection of identities in liturgies shared by Lutherans and Catholics. Using evidence from sermons, literature, and art, the chanted celebrations will be reintegrated into worship. The promotion of idealised femininities and masculinities in text and music will be examined in the five major Lutheran chant compendia. The adoption and adaptation of these identities will be explored in imported and local liturgical books used in the multicultural, heterodox trade centre of Tallinn. The oppositional interrelation of reshaped Catholic and Lutheran identities will be analysed in the Feast of the Visitation, which both groups revised. This research will demonstrate how musical saints’ cults refashioned identities and connected communities after the Reformation. It will thus enhance and benefit interdisciplinary studies of identity, worship, and reform. It will also provide new insights on the socio-political and cultural changes that reshaped Europe and still resound today.
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Régimen de financiación
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
751 05 Uppsala
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