Floris Meens
I am an assistant professor in cultural history at Radboud University, specialised in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My current research combines two of my main strands of interest: the history of (private) social relations and the history of music. In 2018 I was awarded a VENI-grant by the NWO (Dutch Research Council) for my research project 'Connected through Music: Domestic Music, Emotions and Social Relations in The Netherlands, ca. 1815-1914'. The project questions the meaning of music (making) to people in the pivotal age of the rise of the modern public and private concert. It argues that to fully understand the historical significance of music, it is essential to study its relation to emotions and social interactions. So far, this relation has only been investigated for public concerts. My project examines how domestic music and related emotions enabled individuals to connect with each other in The Netherlands between 1815 and 1914. It also examines how private social life influenced the reception of certain compositions, music genres and styles. With this project I also intend to contribute to the current debate about the future of classical music culture.
Part of this project relates to the comprehensive and systematic history of salons that I am preparing together with an international group of colleagues: http://blogs.memphis.edu/salonsproject/.
Related interests include modern urban culture, the history of modern travel and travel literature (with a grant of the Dutch Foundation for Literature I am working on a biography of the Dutch traveller and writer Maurits Wagenvoort, 1859-1944), and the history of Western classical music.
Part of this project relates to the comprehensive and systematic history of salons that I am preparing together with an international group of colleagues: http://blogs.memphis.edu/salonsproject/.
Related interests include modern urban culture, the history of modern travel and travel literature (with a grant of the Dutch Foundation for Literature I am working on a biography of the Dutch traveller and writer Maurits Wagenvoort, 1859-1944), and the history of Western classical music.
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The essays concentrate on four specific topics: colonial memory, religion, imperial and post-colonial contact zones, and changing concepts of Europe. Taken together, these historical perspectives transcend older Grand Narratives by presenting Europe as a multiform and ever-changing cultural construction. They contribute to a better understanding of Europe’s changing position in the world and the way we perceive it.