Language : French and English
This Study Day will be broadcast live on Philharmonie à la demande, then recorded on the same platform at the end of the event.
Programme
9.45 am - Greetings and introduction
Marie Pauline Martin, director, Musée de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris
Anaïs Flechet, Contemporary History teacher, Sciences Po Strasbourg
Session 1 - Collections and empires
Session chair : Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry (Musée de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris)
10.00 am - Ariane Théveniaud (CHCSC, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris-Saclay), The role of colonial agents in the constitution of French instrumental collections: the case of West African lutes acquired by the musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro (1880-1910)
10.15 am - Louis Petitjean (École d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne), Circulation of musical instruments in the Indochinese peninsula. Colonial and scientific networks (1883-1902)
10.30 am - Joana Peliz (Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, University of Lisbon), Non-European Instruments in the Collection of the Artist Alfredo Keil: Methods of Acquisition and Significance
10.45 am - Questions Time
11.00 am - Break
11.30 am - Keynote - David R.M. Irving (ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, Barcelona), Cultural Identity, the Environment, and Industrial Modernity: Global-Historical Perspectives on Musical Instruments in the Long Nineteenth Century
12.15 am - Question Time
12.30 am - Lunch Break
Session 2 - Exchanges and appropriations
Session chair : Martin Guerpin (RASM-CHCSC, Université d’Évry, Paris-Saclay)
2.00 pm - Michael Lea (University of Sydney, Australia), Antipodean Aspirations – the early European musical instrument trade in Australia
2.15 pm - Francis Lapointe (Laboratoire d'histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal), Musical instrument making and trade in pre-industrial British North America: the case of Montreal, 1800-1851
2.30 pm - Rym Mansour (Institut Supérieure de Musique de l’Université de Sousse, Tunisie), The repercussions and discourse surrounding pianos invented for arabic music in the early 20th century
2.45 pm - Questions Time
3.00 pm - Break
Session 3 - Sourindro Mohun Tagore, a maker of collections
Session chair : Gabriele Rossi Rognoni (Royal College of Music, London)
3.15 pm - Guillaume Lecoester (Musée de l’Armée, Paris), The making of Tagore collections: outline of a distribution strategy
3.30 pm - Fañch Thoraval (Musée des instruments de musique de Bruxelles, UC Louvain), Themusical box of rajah Sourindro Mohun Tagore (MIM inv. 1946): mediating the other and the self in the British Raj in the late 19th century
3.45 pm - Questions Time
Session 4 - A world economy of instruments
Session chair : Thierry Maniguet (Musée de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris)
4.00 pm - Fanny Gribenski (New York University, Department of Music), The Elephant in the Piano: Music, Ecology, Empire
4.15 pm - Anaïs Fléchet (Sciences Po Strasbourg), Tropicalizing Pianos: the Conquest of American markets in the Nineteenth Century
4.30 pm - Jimena Palacios Uribe (Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico), Mexico City as a bastion of musical instruments international trade (1870-1910): companies, commercial agents, and objects
5.00 pm - Questions Time
5.15/5.30 pm - Conclusions
6.00/7.00 pm - Private visit of the Musée de la musique (Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris)
Co-production Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Salle de conférence - Philharmonie
See the venueGetting here
Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B