Zamus: early music festival I Creating new Spaces: Approaches to Colonial Heritage in Early Music

This year's symposium will focus on historically evolved structures of inequality and the question of how these can be countered and counteracted in the early music scene today. The symposium is intended to provide a space in which new strategies in early music can be imagined, discussed and inspired together. Many works of early music originate from the colonial era and are embedded in colonial traditions of thought. This year's symposium will examine this legacy: which colonial practices and forms of knowledge shaped early music, and which continue to shape it? What can be learned from decolonial and other power-sensitive approaches - on a theoretical, but above all on a practical level? Several lectures, field reports and a joint discussion will examine these questions from the perspectives of art and music.

The event will be held in English.

Artists
Dr. Rahab Njeri, Änne-Marthe Kühn & Leyla Ercan, Hugo Miguel de Rodas Sanchez, Jorge Silva, Christina Zintl

10:00–10:30
Colonial Shadows: Toward a Decolonial Future? Dr. Rahab Njeri, Universität Köln

10:30–11:00
Diversity and Sensitivity Reading: A Practical Approach to Problematic Content in Opera and Oratorio Leyla Ercan, Critical Classics

11:00–11:30
Transculturation of Sound: Music and Colonialism in Colonial Hispanic America Hugo Miguel de Rodas Sanchez

12:00–12:30
Origins of Dances: Colonial Narrative in Early Music Dances Jorge Silva

13.00 – 14.00 
Discussion with Änne-Marthe Kühn, Hugo Miguel de Rodas Sanchez, Dr. Rahab Njeri, Jorge Silva, Christina Zintl and others.

Free entry