Description du projet
Modification de l’identité dans les chants religieux et rôles de genre
L’interprétation publique du chant évoque un sentiment d’unité, l’expression d’une identité commune qui transcende les divisions politiques, sociales, historiques ou autres. Cela dit, peu de recherches ont été menées sur les influences plurielles de la musique liturgique sur la formation des croyances, des identités et des rôles de genre religieux en Europe. Le projet ReSound, financé par l’UE, s’intéressera à l’incidence considérable de la composition et de l’interprétation du plain-chant dans les efforts visant à recréer les réseaux et les identités dévotionnels dévastés pendant la Réforme en Europe. Le projet étudiera l’influence des représentations des féminités dans les célébrations révisées en l’honneur de saints sur les idées et les attentes sexospécifiques des communautés. En outre, il lèvera le voile sur le rôle musical et dévotionnel des béguines et des autres femmes semi-religieuses pendant les bouleversements religieux.
Objectif
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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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
751 05 Uppsala
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