'Music in early modern Ethiopia' with Janie Cole

Five College Renaissance Seminar with Janie Cole (UConn Storrs)

Dr. Janie Cole's (PhD University of London) research encompasses a broad range of subjects with a strong focus on interdisciplinarity, source studies and global music histories, including on music and the anti-apartheid struggle in 20th-century South Africa and musical constructions of Blackness, apartheid struggle movement politics, violence, resistance, trauma, and social change; musical practices, instruments and thought in early modern African kingdoms and Afro-Eurasian encounters, transcultural circulation and entanglements in the age of exploration; and the intersection of music, consumption and production, politics, patronage and gender in late Renaissance and early Baroque Italy and France. Her current work focuses on early modern musical culture at the royal court in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia and intertwined sonic histories of entanglement with the Latin Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean world. She is the author of two books, A Muse of Music in Early Baroque Florence: the Poetry of Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane  (Olschki, 2007) and Music, Spectacle and Cultural Brokerage in Early Modern Italy: Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane, 2 vols. (Olschki, 2011), as well as numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.