Musicology Colloquium

Patricia Caicedo presents Beyond Center and Periphery: Latin American Art Song and the Decolonization of the Classical Vocal Canon.

What can art song reveal about how nations imagine themselves? Through rarely heard works by Latin  American composers and poets, this lecture traces how songs became mirrors of identity, history, and cultural change. It offers context, listening tools, and performance insights needed to bring this repertoire into today’s vocal canon.

Patricia Caicedo is a soprano, musicologist, and physician specializing in Latin American and Iberian art song, music and health, and decolonial thought. Founder of the Barcelona Festival of Song, she has performed internationally, recorded eleven albums, and authored eighteen books, including The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations (Lexington Books, 2018) and We Are What We Listen To: The Impact of Music on Individual and Social Health (Mundo Arts Publications, 2021).

Free admission.