[iberoamericanmusiclist] Reminder: Extended deadline (25 July 2026) – CFP: Popular Religious Song in the Hispanic World

Mon Jul 20 13:09:50 PDT 2026

Dear colleagues,

This is a friendly reminder that the extended deadline for submitting
proposals to the international conference "Popular Religious Song in the
Hispanic World: Transdisciplinary Perspectives" (Baeza, Spain, 3–4 December
2026) is now 25 July 2026.

We welcome proposals from scholars working in musicology, ethnomusicology,
anthropology, liturgical studies, philology, cultural history, heritage
studies, and related disciplines. Papers may be presented in Spanish or
English.

Please send abstracts (ca. 200 words) to Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita at
amazuela at ugr.es by 25 July 2026.

The original call for papers is reproduced below for your convenience.

We would be very grateful if you could circulate this announcement among
colleagues and students who may be interested.

With best wishes,

Javier Marín-López
Universidad de Jaén / FeMAUB

El mié, 27 may 2026 a las 19:34, Javier Marín-López (<marin at ujaen.es>)
escribió:

>
>
>
> *International ConferencePopular Religious Song in the Hispanic World:
> Transdisciplinary PerspectivesBaeza (Jaén, Spain), International University
> of Andalusia3–4 December 2026Deadline for proposals: 1 July 2026*
>
> This conference takes as its starting point the growing interest in
> popular religious song across the Hispanic world. It seeks to bring
> together recent work on the subject and to place it in conversation with
> approaches from musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, liturgical
> studies, philology, cultural history, and heritage studies. Popular
> religious song cannot be understood only as a repertory to be classified.
> It belongs to a wider field of practices in which oral transmission,
> written sources, ritual action, local memory, musical performance, and
> devotional life are closely intertwined. For this reason, the conference
> invites papers that examine these traditions in their historical, social,
> and performative settings, with attention to the people, communities, and
> institutions that have preserved, transformed, or redefined them over time.
>
> A central aim of the meeting is to encourage dialogue across the Hispanic
> world, connecting local case studies with broader processes linking Spain,
> Latin America, and Hispanic communities in the United States. In doing so,
> the conference seeks to open new questions about the relationship between
> living practice, archives, and cultural memory, and about the changing ways
> in which these musical traditions have been documented, transmitted,
> reinterpreted, revitalized, institutionalized, rejected, or prohibited.
>
> *PROPOSALS*
> Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to:
> - Historiography and research perspectives on popular religious song in
> the Hispanic world
> - Genres and devotional categories (alabados, alabanzas, pastorelas,
> gozos, rosaries, Stations of the Cross, and other sung practices)
> - Liturgical and paraliturgical functions and festive calendars
> - Intersections between Catholic ritual and other ritual traditions in
> popular religious song
> - Modality, rhythm, form, and style in popular religious song
> - Poetic forms, literary styles, and relationships between music and text
> - Popular religious song and linguistic diversity
> - Contrafacta, transmission, and exchange of texts and melodies
> - Confraternities, brotherhoods, choirs, and other performative groups
> - Prayer leaders, singers, and other ritual specialists involved in the
> regulation and direction of singing practices
> - Transcultural processes and transatlantic or regional exchanges
> - The role of women in the transmission and practice of popular religious
> song
> - Manuscript and printed source typologies
> - Sound recordings, audiovisual documents, and digital archives
> - Collection campaigns, folklorists, and documentation processes related
> to popular religious song
> - Revitalization, heritage-making processes, and institutionalization of
> traditional religious repertories
> - Popular religious song in relation to liturgical and devotional change
> - Performance, vocality, rituality, and contemporary uses of popular
> religious song
> - Social contexts and ideologies reflected through popular religious song
>
> We welcome proposals for individual twenty-minute papers in either Spanish
> or English. Proposals should include:
> - An abstract (approximately 200 words)
> - Institutional affiliation (if applicable), a short biography
> (approximately 150 words), and the author’s email address
> - Audiovisual requirements
>
> Abstracts should be sent to Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita at: *amazuela at ugr.es
> <amazuela at ugr.es>*
> - Deadline for submission of proposals: *1 July 2026*
> - Notification of accepted proposals: *15 July 2026*
> - Official languages of the conference: *Spanish and English*
>
> The call is open to researchers from a wide range of disciplinary
> backgrounds, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology,
> anthropology, liturgical studies, philology, cultural history, and heritage
> studies.
>
> The organizers are unable to cover travel, accommodation, or subsistence
> expenses. However, accommodation at the University Residence Hall will be
> available for interested participants.
>
> The conference will take place in person at the Antonio Machado campus of
> the International University of Andalusia in Baeza (Jaén, Spain). We
> understand that some international participants may be unable to travel to
> Baeza due to financial, health-related, or mobility constraints. In
> selected cases, and at the discretion of the organizing committee,
> participation via videoconference may therefore be considered.
>
> The conference is organized within the framework of the 30th Early Music
> Festival of Úbeda and Baeza (FeMAUB) and will be complemented by a series
> of concerts featuring leading ensembles in the field of early music,
> including Cantoría, Alkymia, Cappella Pratensis, Schola Antiqua, Iliber
> Ensemble, and Confluencia de dos mundos, among others (4–8 December).
> Concerts will take place in both Úbeda and Baeza, UNESCO World Heritage
> cities of major historical and artistic interest.
>
> *SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE*
> Jaume Ayats (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
> Enrique Cámara de Landa (Universidad de Valladolid)
> Arturo Chamorro (Universidad de Guadalajara)
> Carlos Hernández Dávila (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia)
> Anastasia Krutitskaya (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, ENES
> Morelia)
> John Koegel (California State University, Fullerton)
> David Mañero Lozano (Universidad de Jaén)
> Mariana Masera (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
> Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita (Universidad de Granada / FeMAUB)
> Carolina Sacristán (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de
> Monterrey)
>
> *CONVENERS*
> Javier Marín-López (Universidad de Jaén / FeMAUB)
> Antonio Ruiz Caballero (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia,
> Mexico City)
>
> *ORGANIZERS*
> International University of Andalusia, Baeza
> Early Music Festival of Úbeda and Baeza
>
> *COLLABORATING PROJECTS AND INSTITUTIONS*
> R&D Project “Hispanic Polyphonic Practices (16th–19th Centuries) from a
> Digital Perspective: Musical Sources, Survivals, and Women”
> (PID2021-123990NB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science,
> Innovation and Universities / State Research Agency 10.13039/501100011033
> and by FEDER “A Way of Making Europe.”
>
> Digital platforms: Fondo de Música Tradicional IMF-CSIC (FMT),
> https://musicatradicional.imf.csic.es, and Books of Hispanic Polyphony
> IMF-CSIC (BHP), https://hispanicpolyphony.eu
>
> R&D Project “The Paths of the Alabado: History and Musicology from a
> Global Perspective” (INAH, 39401), Escuela Nacional de Antropología e
> Historia, Mexico
>
> www.unia.es
> https://www.festivalubedaybaeza.com
> (Activity pending final approval by the UNIA, expected by the end of
> June.)
>
>
> --
> *Javier Marín-López*
> Catedrático de Universidad, Área de Música
> Director del Secretariado de Editorial Universitaria y Proyección de la
> Cultura
> www.javiermarinlopez.com
> marin at ujaen.es
> Directorio de redes sociales | *Social Media Profile List*
> <https://linktr.ee/javiermarinlopez>
> *NUEVO / NEW* Canal de YouTube: Hispanic Historical Music (Latin America,
> Greater Mexico & Spain)
> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6dxJIDyrnPQfXBYOstKRCg?sub_confirmation=1>
> *Universidad de Jaén*
> Dpto. Didáctica de la Expresión Musical, Plástica y Corporal
> Facultad de Humanidades y CC. Educación, Edif. D2-127
> Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n - 23071 - Jaén (España)
> | +34 953 213 374
>
> Vicerrectorado de Cultura
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> C/ Virgen de la Cabeza, 2C - 23008 - Jaén (España)
> vicultura at ujaen.es
>
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>
>

-- 
*Javier Marín-López*
Catedrático de Universidad, Área de Música
Director del Secretariado de Editorial Universitaria y Proyección de la
Cultura
www.javiermarinlopez.com
marin at ujaen.es
Directorio de redes sociales | *Social Media Profile List*
<https://linktr.ee/javiermarinlopez>
*NUEVO / NEW* Canal de YouTube: Hispanic Historical Music (Latin America,
Greater Mexico & Spain)
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6dxJIDyrnPQfXBYOstKRCg?sub_confirmation=1>
*Universidad de Jaén*
Dpto. Didáctica de la Expresión Musical, Plástica y Corporal
Facultad de Humanidades y CC. Educación, Edif. D2-127
Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n - 23071 - Jaén (España)
| +34 953 213 374

Vicerrectorado de Cultura
Antigua Escuela de Magisterio - Cultura y emprendimiento, dependencia 311B
C/ Virgen de la Cabeza, 2C - 23008 - Jaén (España)
vicultura at ujaen.es

[image: Universidad de Jaén] <https://www.ujaen.es/>
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