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The Department of Music welcomes Dr Julia Hamilton (Columbia) to give a talk "British Abolitionism on the Marketplace for Musical Scores, 1787 to 1838, as part of the Music Research Seminar Series at the University of Aberdeen.
Julia Hamilton is Core Lecturer in Music Humanities at Columbia University, where she recently completed her PhD in 2021. Her dissertation, entitled “Political Songs in Polite Society: Singing about Africans in the Time of the British Abolition Movement, 1787 to 1807,” explored a set of scores whose textual and musical content critiqued Britain’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. These scores were included in the music collections of British women from the era, and thus represent a variety of musical activities through which women promoted abolitionism from their homes.
Dr. Hamilton has recently published an article entitled “‘African’ Songs and Women’s Abolitionism in the Home, 1787-1807” in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (2021) and is currently working on a book project that traces the shifting musical approaches to British antislavery activism from the 1760s to the 1840s.
In addition to her research, she is an active singer, cellist, and director.
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