Beautiful Politics of Music

Trova in Yucatán, Mexico

Gabriela Vargas-Cetina (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2017
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-1962-5 (ISBN)

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An exploration into the history and practice of trova, a genre of music that is the soul of Yucatán. Yucatecan trova is a music genre comprising a type of romantic song that is considered ï¿½the soul of Yucatán and Yucatecans.ï¿½ The first book on Yucatecan trova, offers an insider's view of the history and practice of a treasured cultural heritage. A central theme of Gabriela Vargas-Cetina's ethnography is what she refers to as the ï¿½beautiful politics of musicï¿½ practiced by Yucatecan trova patrons and organizations, which is a way of asserting the importance of groups and issues through nonconfrontational means. Trova emerged on the peninsula at the end of the nineteenth century and continues to be part of the general urban soundscape in the states of Yucatán and Campeche. Until the 1920s, this music was little known outside Yucatán and became absorbed into the larger Latin American Bolero genre, making it difficult to perceive its uniqueness and relation to life in Yucatán. Vargas-Cetina, a native Yucatecan and trova musician, offers ethnographic insight into the local music scene. With family connections, she embedded herself as a trovadora, and her fieldworkâ€“singing, playing the guitar in a trova group, and extensively researching the genre and talking with fellow enthusiasts and expertsâ€“ensued. Trova, like other types of artistic endeavors, is the result of collaboration and social milieu. She describes the dedicated trova clubs, cultural institutions, the Yucatecan economy of agricultural exports, and identity politics that helped the music come about and have maintained it today. Positioned in the larger context of the music of Mexico and Latin American and engaging with theories of modernity and cosmopolitanism, experimental ethnography, and the anthropology of organizations, Beautiful Politics of Music consists of rigorous scholarship. It is also a warm tribute to performers and songs that have inspired many people around the world for more than two centuries.

Gabriela Vargas-Cetina is a professor of anthropology at the Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mexico. She is the editor of Anthropology and the Politics of Representation; has published on sheep herding cooperatives in Sardinia, Italy, and on weavers’s cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico; and recently coauthored, with Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz and Francisco Fernández Repetto, a book on aesthetics, culture, and technology in Yucatan titled Cocina, música y comunicación. Tecnologías y estética en el Yucatán contemporáneo.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	14 black & white figures, 3 maps, 1 table
Verlagsort	Alabama
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8173-1962-X / 081731962X
ISBN-13	978-0-8173-1962-5 / 9780817319625
Zustand	Neuware