Hearing Faith explores the ways Roman Catholics in the seventeenth-century Spanish
Empire used music to connect faith and hearing. From the Royal Chapel in Madrid to Puebla …

Church ensembles of Spaniards across the Spanish Empire regularly impersonated African
and other non-Castilian characters in the villancicos they performed in the Christmas Matins …

Nuns in New Spain were celebrated with music and elaborate rituals when they took the
habit and professed in a convent. These grandiose profession ceremonies drew in a host of …

Among the earliest copies of extant printed Spanish American decks in museums are those
found in excavations in Lima. There is also a copy of a deck printed in Mexico, along with the …

Villancicos became an important musical genre in the Spanish world and migrated with the
conquest from the Iberian Peninsula to the New World. Within the context of highly racially …

The creation of a city entails the creation of a world. This simple notion suggests the colossal
complexity inherent in the task of urban creation. In the early modern period, the American …

In the Philippines from 1640 to 1750, Spanish authorities feared that they would lose control
of the Pacific colony to its multiracial resident populations. Essential to imperial fear was a …