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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I: Silvestre Revueltas: A Political Composer
- Chapter 1. Political Being and Doing: a Social Biography
- Chapter 2. Political Soundings: Change through Art
- Part II: Targeting Western Modernity: De-Colonial Avantgardism
- Chapter 3. Epistemic Disobedience: Surrealis and Dadaist Soundings?
- Chapter 4. The Lure of the Russian Revolution: Machinist Soundings
- Chapter 5. The Art of the Streets: Sounding The Piercing Cries of the Poor and Helpless Street Vendor
- Chapter 6. Breaking down False Consciousness: The Musical Irony behind Revueltas' Geometric Dance
- Part III: How (not) to Sound the Nation
- Chapter 7. Magueyes and Musica de Feria (1932)
- Chapter 8. Colorines (1932)
- Chapter 9. Alcancias (Three Pieces for Orchestra) (1932)
- Chapter 10. Janitzio (1933/1936)
- Chapter 11. Ocho x Radio (1933)
- Part IV: Sounding Utopia: Revueltas' Musical Allegories of Revolution
- Chapter 12. Composing for the People
- Chapter 13. Spain in the Heart: Revueltas and the Civil War in Spain
- Chapter 14. Nostalgia of the Future: Sounding Allegories of Liberation through Poetry and Music (Co-authored with Susana Gonzalez-Aktories)
- Part V: Colonialist Reception and Continued Colonizing of Revueltas' Music
- Chapter 15. Aberrant Reception Yesterday: Views from Within and Without
- Chapter 16. Aberrant Reception Today (and Tomorrow?): Mayadammerung or the Chronicle of a Fraudulent Performance of Exotic Otherness
- Some Closing Thoughts
- Notes
- References
- Index