Immaculate Sounds

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Immaculate Sounds is written by Cesar D. Favila and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197621899 (ISBN 10) and 9780197621899 (ISBN 13).

In this study on the musical lives of nuns in colonial Latin America, author Cesar D. Favila argues that the sounds of cloisters were deemed essential for the promotion of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and, by extension, the salvation of early modern society. Through analysis of these "immaculate sounds," rarely studied archival sources, rulebooks, devotional literature, and nun's biographies, Favila locates women's agency within a hierarchical society that silenced some women and required others to sing.