1805 Symposium: Performance Cultures of Territorial New Orleans
Thursday, September 25, 4:30-6:00 p.m.,
Associate Professor of Musicology Julia Doe (Columbia University), 鈥淭he Romance of Gr茅try鈥�
In this lecture, Professor Julia Doe explores the cultural and political position of the composer Andr茅 Gr茅try鈥檚 music in the years up to and around 1805, including works featured in the 1805 Concert program as well as those associated with Minette Ferrand and Marie-Jeanne Marsan, two of the Caribbean鈥檚 most important lyric performers around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Julia Doe is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University. Her first book, The Comedians of the King (University of Chicago Press, 2021), examines the cultural politics of lyric comedy in eighteenth-century France. Other recent essays have appeared in the Eighteenth-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, and the Journal of Musicology.
Professor of Caribbean History Philippe Girard (McNeese State), 鈥淓xiled performers from Haiti (Saint-Domingue) in New Orleans and the Caribbean Origins of American Blackface鈥�
Professor Philippe Girard鈥檚 talk will focus particularly on the entwined lives of
Marie-Jeanne Marsan and Minette Ferrand, the stars of the Cap-Francais and Port-au-Prince
operas, respectively, each of whom passed away in New Orleans during the Territorial
period.
Philippe Girard is a professor of Caribbean history at McNeese State University and
a specialist of the Haitian Revolution. He is the author of five books, including
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life (Basic Books 2016).
The Symposium on Performance Cultures of Territorial New Orleans is presented in conjunction with the 1805 Concert by the 海角社区 CFFS with support from the Strategic Excellence Fund of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
As part of its mission, CFFS routinely invites nationally and internationally recognized scholars to the 海角社区 campus to present on aspects of French Language and Culture, with a focus on Caribbean Studies and Digital Humanities.