Colonial Music, Confraternities, and Power in the Archdiocese of Lima

Young, Kydalla E.

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Title

Colonial Music, Confraternities, and Power in the Archdiocese of Lima

Author(s)

Young, Kydalla E.

Issue Date

2010-08-20T18:01:18Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Hill, John W.

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Hill, John W.

Committee Member(s)

• Bashford, Christina
• Buchanan, Donna A.
• Ward, Thomas R.

Department of Study

Music

Discipline

Musicology

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• Peru
• colonial
• Andes
• Spanish colonies
• Catholic Church
• confraternity

Abstract

My dissertation studies the intersections of colonial Spanish ecclesiastical and secular hegemonic orthodoxy, subaltern heterodoxy, the confraternity as an institutional nexus of these competing forces, and the musical expressions thereof in the Archdiocese of Lima, particularly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. All strata of society, from slave to viceroy, gathered in confraternities, which could serve as institutions of both church control and the conservation of “pagan” traditions, and which contributed the greater portion of musical activities during the yearly religious festivals. These festivals, in turn, formed one of the principal contexts for public displays of colonial positions of power. My dissertation, through the lenses of confraternities and their musical life, explores power and cultural traditions in the archdiocese as an exemplar of how these forces operated throughout the Spanish American colonies, challenging a retroactive, historically inappropriate narrative of unilateral Spanish domination, racial essentialism, and homogenization of subaltern groups.

Graduation Semester

2010-08

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