[iberoamericanmusiclist] CFP Conference: "Popular Religious Song in the Hispanic World" (deadline: 1 July 2026)

Wed May 27 10:34:50 PDT 2026

*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.)

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*Javier Marín-López*
Catedrático de Universidad, Área de Música
Director del Secretariado de Editorial Universitaria y Proyección de la
Cultura
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