Descrizione del progetto
I canti religiosi cambiano le identità e i ruoli di genere
L’esecuzione pubblica dei canti evoca un senso emotivo di unità, un’espressione di identità comune che supera le divisioni politiche, sociali, storiche o di altro genere. Tuttavia, esistono poche ricerche sulle molteplici influenze che la musica liturgica ha avuto sulla nascita delle convinzioni religiose, delle identità e dei ruoli di genere in Europa. Il progetto ReSound, finanziato dall’UE, concentrerà l’attenzione sull’impatto determinante della composizione e dell’esecuzione dei canti gregoriani nel tentativo di ricreare reti e identità devozionali distrutte durante il periodo della Riforma protestante in Europa. Il progetto studierà i modi con cui le rappresentazioni femminili nelle celebrazioni riviste di santi hanno influito sulle idee e sulle aspettative di genere delle comunità. Inoltre, ReSound presenterà il ruolo musicale e devozionale di beghine e di altre donne semi-religiose durante gli stravolgimenti in ambito religioso.
Obiettivo
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)Coordinatore
751 05 Uppsala
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