Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music – serie
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Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet's Chile
Inbunden, 2025
1658 kr
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Over 1,000 political imprisonment and torture centers existed across Chile during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). Music was often present in those centers, both as a response to and part of human rights violations. In this pioneering book, Katia Chornik explores the …
Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet's Chile
Häftad, 2025
608 kr
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Over 1,000 political imprisonment and torture centers existed across Chile during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). Music was often present in those centers, both as a response to and part of human rights violations. In this pioneering book, Katia Chornik explores the …
Mario Lavista
Mirrors of Sounds
Inbunden, 2023
1285 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Composer, pianist, editor, writer, and pedagogue Mario Lavista …
Entertaining Lisbon
Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century
Av João Silva
Inbunden, 2016
1865 kr
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During the decades leading up to 1910, Portugal saw vast material improvements under the guise of modernization while in the midst of a significant political transformation - the establishment of the Portuguese First Republic. Urban planning, everyday life, and innovation merged in a rapidly …
In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13
Inbunden, 2015
902 kr
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In the 1920s, the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) developed a microtonal system called El Sonido 13 (The 13th Sound). Although his pioneering role as one of the first proponents of microtonality within the Western art music tradition elevated Carrillo to iconic status among European …
Opera in the Tropics
Music and Theater in Early Modern Brazil
Inbunden, 2019
1809 kr
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Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from the mid 1500s to the early 1820s. Author Rogério Budasz delves into the practices of the actors, singers, poets, and composers who created and performed Jesuit moral plays, Spanish comedias, and Portuguese …
Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain
Inbunden, 2017
1261 kr
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The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was made available to the public. …
Playing in the Cathedral
Music, Race, and Status in New Spain
Inbunden, 2016
1507 kr
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Throughout Spanish colonial America, limpieza de sangre (literally, "purity of blood ") determined an individual's status within the complex system of social hierarchy called casta. Within this socially stratified culture, those individuals at the top were considered to have the highest calidad-an …
Sonidos Negros
On the Blackness of Flamenco
Inbunden, 2019
2045 kr
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How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a …
Sonidos Negros
On the Blackness of Flamenco
Häftad, 2019
686 kr
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How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a …
Federico Moreno Torroba
Av Walter Aaron Clark, William Craig Krause
Häftad, 2016
902 kr
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The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career which spanned six decades, and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals. After Falla, he was the most …
Sound-Politics in São Paulo
Inbunden, 2019
1998 kr
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How does the state separate music from noise? How can such filtering apparatus shape the content and form of sound production in the city? As a marker of co-presence to the hearing body, sound is always open to (or rather opens up) the politics of shared existence. In the throes of the …
Sound-Politics in São Paulo
Häftad, 2019
580 kr
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How does the state separate music from noise? How can such a filtering apparatus shape the content and form of sound production in the city? As a marker of co-presence to the hearing body, sound is always open to (or rather opens up) the politics of shared existence. In the throes of the …
The Invention of Latin American Music
A Transnational History
Inbunden, 2020
2045 kr
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The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but how and why have these disparate musical streams come to fall under the single category of "Latin American music"? Reconstructing how this category came …
The Invention of Latin American Music
A Transnational History
Häftad, 2020
676 kr
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The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but how and why have these disparate musical streams come to fall under the single category of "Latin American music"? Reconstructing how this category came …
Panpipes & Ponchos
Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz, Bolivia
Inbunden, 2020
2045 kr
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Melodious panpipes and kena flutes. The shimmering strums of a charango. Poncho-clad musicians playing "El Cóndor Pasa" at subway stops or street corners while selling their recordings. These sounds and images no doubt come to mind for many "world music" fans when they recall their early encounters …
Panpipes & Ponchos
Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in La Paz, Bolivia
Häftad, 2020
602 kr
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Melodious panpipes and kena flutes. The shimmering strums of a charango. Poncho-clad musicians playing "El Cóndor Pasa" at subway stops or street corners while selling their recordings. These sounds and images no doubt come to mind for many "world music" fans when they recall their early encounters …
Elite Art Worlds
Philanthropy, Latin Americanism, and Avant-garde Music
Inbunden, 2020
1639 kr
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The Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales (CLAEM) in Buenos Aires operated for less than a decade, but by the time of its closure in 1971 it had become the undeniable epicenter of Latin American avant-garde music. Providing the first in-depth study of CLAEM, author Eduardo Herrera …
Bossa Mundo
Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries
Inbunden, 2019
2001 kr
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Brazilian music has been central to Brazil's national brand in the U.S. and U.K. since the early-1960s. From bossa nova in 1960s jazz and film, through the 1970s fusion and funk scenes, the world music boom of the late 1980s and the bossa nova remix revival at the turn of the millennium, and on to …
Bossa Mundo
Brazilian Music in Transnational Media Industries
Häftad, 2019
506 kr
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Brazilian music has been central to Brazil's national brand in the U.S. and U.K. since the early-1960s. From bossa nova in 1960s jazz and film, through the 1970s fusion and funk scenes, the world music boom of the late 1980s and the bossa nova remix revival at the turn of the millennium, and on to …
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy
Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti
Inbunden, 2020
2490 kr
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Richly ethnographic and a compelling read, After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians in contemporary Haiti. The book explores how the self-declared president of konpa Sweet Micky (Michel Martelly) …
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy
Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti
Häftad, 2020
863 kr
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Richly ethnographic and a compelling read, After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians in contemporary Haiti. The book explores how the self-declared president of konpa Sweet Micky (Michel Martelly) …
Música Típica
Cumbia and the Rise of Musical Nationalism in Panama
Inbunden, 2020
2234 kr
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The Panama Canal is a world-famous site central to the global economy, but the social, cultural, and political history of the country along this waterway is little known outside its borders. In Música Típica, author Sean Bellaviti sheds light on a key element of Panamanian culture, namely the story …
Música Típica
Cumbia and the Rise of Musical Nationalism in Panama
Häftad, 2020
521 kr
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The Panama Canal is a world-famous site central to the global economy, but the social, cultural, and political history of the country along this waterway is little known outside its borders. In Música Típica, author Sean Bellaviti sheds light on a key element of Panamanian culture, namely the story …
The Sweet Penance of Music
Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile
Inbunden, 2020
1358 kr
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A monumental study of musical practices in 18th century Santiago de Chile, and the only English-language monograph about Chilean colonial music, A Sweet Penance of Music offers a comprehensive view of musicians within the city and their links with other Latin American urban centers in the wider …
Federico Moreno Torroba
A Musical Life in Three Acts
Av Walter Aaron Clark, William Craig Krause
Inbunden, 2013
1203 kr
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The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career which spanned six decades, and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals. After Falla, he was the most …
Embodying Mexico
Tourism, Nationalism, and Performance
Inbunden, 2011
1998 kr
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Embodying Mexico examines two performative icons of Mexicanness--the Dance of the Old Men and Night of the Dead of Lake Pátzcuaro--in numerous manifestations, including film, theater, tourist guides, advertisements, and souvenirs. Covering a ninety-year period from the postrevolutionary era to the …
From Serra to Sancho
Music and Pageantry in the California Missions
Inbunden, 2009
1811 kr
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Music in the California missions was a pluralistic combination of voices and instruments, of liturgy and spectacle, of styles and functions-and even of cultures-in a new blend that was non-existent before the Franciscan friars made their way to California beginning in 1769. This book explores the …
Latin Jazz
The Other Jazz
Inbunden, 2020
1865 kr
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Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage has been all but erased from narratives of jazz history. Told from the perspective of a long-time jazz …
Colonial Counterpoint
Music in Early Modern Manila
Inbunden, 2010
846 kr
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In this groundbreaking study, D. R. M. Irving reconnects the Philippines to current musicological discourse on the early modern Hispanic world. For some two and a half centuries, the Philippine Islands were firmly interlinked to Latin America and Spain through transoceanic relationships of …
