The Global Musical Instrument Market: Making, Trading and Collecting in the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century
Le marché mondial des instruments de musique : facture, commerce et collections au XIXe siècle et dans le premier XXe siècle
Published on Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Abstract
Ivory and tropical woods sawn in European factories, pianos exported as far as Oceania, collections brought back from the colonies: the market for musical instruments went global in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The rise of trade routes and steam navigation supported the globalization of markets for the raw materials used by instrument makers, whose instruments were exported to every continent, while “exotic” objects enriched museums across Europe, serving the colonial project and the manufacture of musical elsewhere. Historians, musicologists and curators explore the journey of instruments around the world through three themes: collections and empires, trade and manufacture, exchanges and appropriation of sounds.
Announcement
Programme for 18 November 2024
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 & 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 (Center 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 & appropriations
Session chair : Martin Guerpin (RASM-CHCSC, Université d’Évry, Paris-Saclay)
- 2.00 pm - Dr Michael Lea (University of Sydney), 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), The musical 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 pm - Conclusions
6.00/7.00 pm - Private visit of the Musée de la musique (Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris)
Registration
https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/activite/28017
Note
Languages are English* and French
Subjects
Places
- Salle de conférence - 221 avenue Jean Jaurès
Paris, France (75019)
Event attendance modalities
Hybrid event (on site and online)
Date(s)
- Monday, November 18, 2024
Keywords
- instrument de musique, circulations, marché, musée, collection, exportation, représentation
Information source
- Ariane Théveniaud
courriel : ariane [dot] theveniaud [at] gmail [dot] com
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« The Global Musical Instrument Market: Making, Trading and Collecting in the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century », Study days, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/12jq8
