The course of Mexican music /

Features a wide array of pedagogical aids, including a comprehensive companion website with audio and video tracks to help reinforce understanding of key concepts. "Companion@website"--Cover.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sturman, Janet Lynn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Why study Mexican music?
  • Defining and listening to Mexican music
  • Pre-cortesian and indigenous music, past and present
  • Majesty, machismo, mestizaje and other legacies of the vice kingdom of New Spain
  • Colonial legacies and regional responses : sones regionales
  • Sound foundations for independence
  • Immigration and cosmopolitan identity during the Porfiriato
  • Gifts of the revolution
  • Cinema, radio and the celebrity cantante
  • New song and rock mexicano
  • Competing popular styles
  • Classical contemporary music : new frames for new audiences
  • A despedida and closing reflections.