Silvestre Revueltas : sounds of a political passion /
"To this day, both at home and beyond Mexico's borders, Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) has been systematically portrayed as a nationalist composer. Unknown or ignored, his private and public writings destroy this myth straight out. The then-fashionable musicking of a presumed Mexicanness...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Silvestre Revueltas : a political composer. Political being and doing : a social biography ; Political soundings : change through art
- Part II. Targeting western modernity : de-colonial avant-gardism ; Epistemic disobedience : surrealist and Dadaist soundings? ; The lure of the Russian revolution : machinist soundings ; The art of the streets : sounding "the piercing cries of the poor and helpless street vendor" ; Breaking down false consciousness : the musical irony behind Revueltas' "Geometric dance"
- Part III. How (not) to sound the nation. Magueyes and Música de feria (1932) ; Colorines (1932) ; Alcancías (Three pieces for orchestra, 1932) ; .Janitzio (1933/1936) ; 8 x Radio (1933) ; Composing for the people ; Spain in the heart : Revueltas and the civil war in Spain ; Nostalgia of the future : sounding allegories of liberation through poetry and music (co-authored with Susana González-Aktories) ; Aberrant reception yesterday : views from within and without ; Aberrant reception today (and tomorrow?) : "Mayadämmerung" or the chronicle of a fraudulent performance of exotic otherness.