Sounding Communities: Music and the Three Religions in Medieval Iberia

Poetry, song, and other forms of performance in Arabic, Latin, Hebrew, and Romance are central sources for the cultural and social history of medieval Iberia. This international conference brings together scholars of music, literature, and history to reflect on the insights that the sounding arts and their context can offer into Iberian communities and the interactions among them.

Sounding Communities is dedicated to the memory of Maria Rosa Menocal (1953-2012), whose influential book The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain was widely read as an eloquent account of peaceful coexistence. Although her vision of convivencia is contested, Menocal's contributions continue to inform the study of medieval Iberia, and to remind us of the prevalence of cultural interchange through music and poetry.

A full program can be found here: http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/sounding-communities-music-and-the-three-religions-in-medieval-iberia/