From marin at ujaen.es Wed May 27 10:34:50 2026 From: marin at ujaen.es (=?UTF-8?B?SmF2aWVyIE1hcsOtbi1Mw7NwZXo=?=) Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 19:34:50 +0200 Subject: [iberoamericanmusiclist] CFP Conference: "Popular Religious Song in the Hispanic World" (deadline: 1 July 2026) Message-ID: *International ConferencePopular Religious Song in the Hispanic World: Transdisciplinary PerspectivesBaeza (Ja?n, 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 Ascensi?n Mazuela-Anguita at: *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 (Ja?n, 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 ?beda and Baeza (FeMAUB) and will be complemented by a series of concerts featuring leading ensembles in the field of early music, including Cantor?a, Alkymia, Cappella Pratensis, Schola Antiqua, Iliber Ensemble, and Confluencia de dos mundos, among others (4?8 December). Concerts will take place in both ?beda and Baeza, UNESCO World Heritage cities of major historical and artistic interest. *SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE* Jaume Ayats (Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona) Enrique C?mara de Landa (Universidad de Valladolid) Arturo Chamorro (Universidad de Guadalajara) Carlos Hern?ndez D?vila (Escuela Nacional de Antropolog?a e Historia) Anastasia Krutitskaya (Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico, ENES Morelia) John Koegel (California State University, Fullerton) David Ma?ero Lozano (Universidad de Ja?n) Mariana Masera (Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico) Ascensi?n Mazuela-Anguita (Universidad de Granada / FeMAUB) Carolina Sacrist?n (Instituto Tecnol?gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) *CONVENERS* Javier Mar?n-L?pez (Universidad de Ja?n / FeMAUB) Antonio Ruiz Caballero (Escuela Nacional de Antropolog?a e Historia, Mexico City) *ORGANIZERS* International University of Andalusia, Baeza Early Music Festival of ?beda 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 M?sica 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 Antropolog?a e Historia, Mexico www.unia.es https://www.festivalubedaybaeza.com (Activity pending final approval by the UNIA, expected by the end of June.) -- *Javier Mar?n-L?pez* Catedr?tico de Universidad, ?rea de M?sica Director del Secretariado de Editorial Universitaria y Proyecci?n de la Cultura www.javiermarinlopez.com marin at ujaen.es Directorio de redes sociales | *Social Media Profile List* *NUEVO / NEW* Canal de YouTube: Hispanic Historical Music (Latin America, Greater Mexico & Spain) *Universidad de Ja?n* Dpto. Did?ctica de la Expresi?n Musical, Pl?stica y Corporal Facultad de Humanidades y CC. Educaci?n, Edif. 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