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  • Chapter 4 - Incorporating Memory in Roman Song and Dance

  • from Part II - Music, Body, and Textual Archives
  • Edited by Lauren Curtis, Bard College, New York, Naomi Weiss, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds
    Published online:
    14 October 2021
    Print publication:
    28 October 2021, pp 101-120

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the cultural status of ritual song and dance in the Roman Late Republican and Augustan periods. By applying the modern theoretical work of Paul Connerton on the social reproduction of memory, the chapter explores several strategies through which two of the most iconic religious associations in Rome – the Salian priesthood and the Arval Brethren – stored and transmitted their cultural traditions. The hymns of these collegia, as well as their performances, constitute unique artifacts for understanding the interconnected processes of writing and embodiment – what Connerton defines as “inscription” and “incorporation”– in the production of ancient musical memories.