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Aspectos sensoriais e sônicos nos escritos do “anglo-americano” Thomas Gage (c. 1603–1656) sobre México e Guatemala

No. 94 (2024-10-17)
  • David R. M. Irving
    Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats (IMF), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
    ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3849-1549

Resumo

Objetivo/Contexto: neste artigo, examina-se a sensorialidade nos escritos de Thomas Gage (c. 1603–1656), que fornecem informações sobre suas experiências como frade dominicano no México e na Guatemala entre 1625 e 1637. Seu livro de 1648, The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land, é importante por ser o primeiro relato detalhado de um escritor inglês sobre a vida cotidiana nas colônias espanholas nas Américas. Entretanto, Gage publicou essa obra e outros textos após sua conversão ao protestantismo, o que contribuiu explicitamente para o discurso anticatólico na Inglaterra. Metodologia: este estudo, escrito a partir da perspectiva da musicologia histórica e influenciado pelas abordagens da história sensorial, identifica e avalia os episódios e as metáforas sônicos nos textos de Gage. Analisa-se como suas descrições de experiências musicais, gastronômicas e religiosas refletiam suas visões políticas e teológicas. Também se considera o conceito de paisagens sonoras e das dimensões materiais e culturais. Originalidade: outros historiadores mostraram como as identidades transnacionais e transdenominacionais, como a de Gage, não tinham lugar nas estruturas tradicionais de análise; no entanto, pesquisadores recentes destacaram suas menções aos sentidos. Este artigo se concentra na audição e mostra as percepções e os dados excepcionais de Gage sobre música e som. Conclusões: a avaliação de Gage dentro do contexto da musicologia e da história sensorial demonstra que ele invocou os sentidos de maneiras únicas, especialmente ao combinar suas dimensões físicas e metafísicas na crítica das práticas católicas em contextos coloniais.

Palavras-chave: catolicismo , dominicanos , Guatemala , história sensorial , México , paisagens sonoras , protestantismo , Thomas Gage

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