Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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Music as a Medium of Women's Power Session Chair: Rafael Torralvo da Silva, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Discussant: Heather Hadlock | |
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Archival Silence and Intellectual Infrastructure: Henriqueta Braga in a Male-Dominated Field Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Anchored by over a thousand handwritten index cards and renowned bibliographic publications, the intellectual production of Henriqueta Rosa Fernandes Braga (1909–1983) challenges the boundaries of Brazilian musicology, demonstrating how a woman navigated a male-dominated field through the strategic accumulation of epistemic capital. Her private intellectual infrastructure is corroborated by a substantial public record, mapped through a systematic quantitative and qualitative survey of the Brazilian National Library's Digital Hemeroteca. Hundreds of contemporary citations in major periodicals — such as Diário de Notícias and Correio da Manhã — attest to Braga’s active presence in the country's musical life. Drawing on Braga’s previously unexamined personal archive, this research demonstrates how she codified foundational frameworks for Music Education, Music History, Sacred Music, and Music Appreciation in Brazil. Methodologically, this paper engages with theories of archival silence to interrogate why this scholar remains on the periphery of contemporary historical narratives. Furthermore, it draws on gender studies to analyze the intellectual networks between Braga and other women, situating her agency within her broader social context. Ultimately, Braga’s case exposes a systemic historiographical flaw: the devaluation of 'intellectual infrastructure' labor—often performed by women—in favor of composer-centric narratives. Recovering her trajectory is not merely about filling a biographical gap but claiming the centrality of these discriminatory organizational practices in the very construction of the musicological discipline. | |