Join Penn Chorale for an afternoon of music featuring works from Melissa Dunphy, Eric Whitacre, and others within the beautiful St. Mary's Church. This event is free and open to the public.
This talk traces the performance of Blackness in Christmas villancicos from Puebla de los Ángeles in the early 1600s. By situating this polyphonic genre within the listening experiences of the growing Afro-diasporic population in New Spain, the presentation reveals defiant voices and expressions of collective identity and the persistent efforts to silence them.