Many members of the research project participated actively in the international symposium Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial Music Historias (16th–20th centuries), organised by the International Musicological Society (IMS), that will take place in Valencia from 9 to 12 July, 2025.
The event is part of the IMS Intercongressional Symposium and its complete programme can be seen here: https://imsvalencia2025.org
Inside this framework, the Study Session “Emissaries of Power. Material and Symbolic Journeys in the Urban Phonospheres of the Catholic Mediterranean (16th–18th centuries)” will be presented. Coordinated by Andrea Bombi (IP of the project), who will be the chair of the session.
The session analyses the urban phonospheres of the occidental Mediterranean in the modern period, structured around the civil religion rituals under the hegemony of the Hispanic monarchy. Despite the apparent uniformity of these ceremonial practises, the proposal presents a fundamental issue: does this homogeneity necessarily imply a sound equality between cities?
The participants of this session are Simone Caputo, Anna Tedesco, José María Domínguez, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita and Andrea Bombi, all of them well-known researchers in historical musicology.
Furthermore, other members of the project will have a relevant role in the congress: Andrea Bombi is the Scientific Coordinator of the event and Ferran Escrivà-Llorca participates both in the organisation and as caller.
This participation intensifies the international projection and its contribution to the contemporary debates about sound sceneries, urban cerimoniality and symbolic circulation in the Iberian and Mediterranean field.
