The Working Class Spectacle

Speaker(s): Aurelie Vialette

Lecture from Ohio State University's Aurelie Vialette: "The Working Class Spectacle: Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century Catalonia."

From speaker, Aurelie Vialette:

"I am an assistant professor of Iberian Studies at The Ohio State University. I specialize in 19th century Iberian cultural studies (popular music, journalistic discourse, archival studies, and mass and working class organizations). My work focuses particularly on the cultural production in response to the workers’ educational and social phenomena, such as poverty, the rise of revolutionary movements, and the integration of masses of workers into the cultural, political, and social concert in 19th-century Iberia. I am currently working on a book, tentatively titled: “Seducing the Masses: Philanthropists and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Iberia.”

I also have a strong interest in transatlantic studies. My second research project analyzes the creation of a journalistic network by women writers between Mexico and Spain in the second half of the nineteenth-century and is titled “Rewriting the Colonial Past: Spanish Women Intellectuals as Agents of Cross Cultural Literacy in the Mexican Press”