Immaculate Sounds : : The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain / / Cesar D. Favila.

• Superior document: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music Series.
• VerfasserIn: Favila, Cesar,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, New York : : Oxford University Press,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Currents in media, social and religious movements in the Middle East.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (361 pages)

In this study on the musical lives of nuns in colonial Latin America, author Cesar D. Favila argues that the sounds of cloisters were deemed essential for the promotion of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and, by extension, the salvation of early modern society. Through analysis of these "immaculate sounds," rarely studied archival sources, rulebooks, devotional literature, and nun's biographies, Favila locates women's agency within a hierarchical society that silenced some women and required others to sing.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Series -- Immaculate Sounds -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Examples -- List of Tables -- List of Appendices -- Note on Sources -- Preface, or an Autohistoria-​Teoría -- Introduction: Veil and Voice -- Part I. Acousmatic Discipline -- 1. Immaculate Conflicts: Resounding Mary's Immaculate Conception, or Who Was Sister Flor de Santa Clara? -- 2. Sonic Thresholds: The Grates of the Cloister and the Lips of Nuns, or Who Was Sister Rosa? -- 3. Disciplined Sounds: Dowry Waivers and Race, or Who Was Sister Mariana Josefa de Señor San Ignacio? -- Part II. Unity -- 4. Feasting Sounds: The Eucharistic Honeymoon, or Who Was Sister Paula? -- 5. Redeeming Sounds: Resounding the Passion of Christ and His Spiritual Brides, or Who Was Sister Marina de San Francisco? -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendices -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.