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Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America

  • Editor: Baker, Geoffrey
  • Editor: Knighton, Tess
There has been significant scholarship on the musical life of colonial North America but far less about the even richer musical culture of Mexico, and Central and South America. The 13 chapters... More…

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Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. The resounding city Geoffrey Baker
  • 2. Music and ritual in urban spaces: the case of Lima, c.1600 Tess Knighton
  • 3. A conflicted relationship: music, power and the inquisition in viceregal Mexico City Javier Marin Lopez
  • 4. Making music, writing myth: urban Guadalupan ritual in eighteenth-century New Spain Drew Edward Davies
  • 5. 'Gold was music to their ears': conflicting sounds in Santafe (Nuevo Reino de Granada), 1540-90 Egberto Bermudez
  • 6. The 'spirit of independence' in the Fiesta de la Naval of Caracas David Coifman
  • 7. Employment, enfranchisement and liminality: ecclesiastical musicians in early modern Manila David R. M. Irving
  • 8. Chapelmasters and musical practice in Brazilian cities in the eighteenth century Paulo Castagna and Jaelson Trindade
  • 9. Music, authority and civilization in Rio de Janeiro (1763-90) Rogerio Budasz
  • 10. Transcending the walls of the churches: the circulation of music and musicians in Santiago de Chile Alejandro Vera
  • 11. The slave's progress: music as profession in Criollo Buenos Aires Bernardo Illari
  • 12. Urban music in the wilderness: ideology and power in the Jesuit reducciones, 1609-1767 Leonardo J. Waisman
  • 13. Enlightened Reformism versus Jesuit Utopia: music in the foundation of El Carmen de Guarayos (Moxos, Bolivia), 1793-1801 Maria Gembero Ustarroz
  • Bibliography
  • Appendices.