Latin American Art Song (eBook)

Sounds of the Imagined Nations

Patricia Caicedo (Autor)

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2018
188 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8163-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This study of the Latin American art song and its development in the context of musical nationalism shows how the song is a mirror in which the processes of conformation to Latin American national identity are reflected.

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Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses in the art songs of Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Per, and Colombia. The book addresses the subject of performance practice of the Latin American song and ends with a proposal for its interpretation.In songs, spaces of representation and cathartic tools thought, language and music have been at the service of some interests, fulfilling specific functions in the construction of the nation. In them, we observe that the construction of identity is a continuous, constant and changing process in which different stories are superimposed. Seen this way, songs are historical texts where social interactions are reflected, and the past, the present and the future are constantly negotiated.The book also addresses the subject of performance practice of the Latin American song and ends with a proposal for its interpretation.

Autor

Patricia Caicedo is a Colombian-Spanish soprano. She holds a PhD in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a MD from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina. Patricia is the founder and director of the Barcelona Festival of Song, a summer program dedicated to the study of the history and interpretation of the Iberian and Latin American art song repertoire.

Inhalt

Foreword by Walter ClarkPreludeIntroductionChapter 1: The sounds of the imagined nationsTowards a broader definition of nationalismLatin America: multiple identitiesMusical nationalism in Latin AmericaLatin American National Anthems: Towards a national identity? Salon music and the influence of Italian operaThe construction of the national sound beginsCreolismAlberto Nepomuceno: Song in PortugueseDeveloping the National StyleAlberto Williams and the stylization of folk songThe double verbal-musical nature of song: Latin American composers setting Latin American poems to musicChapter 2: A creative stormArt song as a medium of expression of modernist nationalismArgentinaBrazilCubaPerúVenezuelaChapter 3: New facets of the concept of nationalism in the 20th century Art song since 1940 Alberto Ginastera: from a national style to a national atmosphereCarlos Guastavino: the voice of traditionJaime León: a Pan-American voiceThe Nueva Canción Latinoamericana movement and its relation to art songChapter 4: Towards a musical transnationalism or the dissolution of borders. Transnationalism: multiple places or the non-placeA transnational composer: Moisès Bertran (Catalunya, 1967)Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, multi-locality, neo-nationalism?Chapter 5: Performance practice of Latin American Art Song The concept of performance practicePerformance: a space of communication between performers and audienceThe performance of art song: an integrative spaceArt song and its performanceFolk song and its performancePopular song and its performanceLooking for the borders between Art song and Folk song: Following the steps of Marcel DuchampPierre Bourdieu and the concepts of field and habitus applied to the study of songMeaning-producing agents in the world of songMeaning-producing agents in the sub-field of art songPerformance context of art songMeaning-producing agents in the sub-field of folk songPerformance context of folk songMeaning-producing agents in the sub-field of popular songPerformance context of popular songThe dual status of folk and art song: Marcel Duchamp and the “ready-mades”Song: an elastic, flexible and integrating spaceProposals for a new performance practice of Latin American art songDiscographyBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2018
• Vorwort: Walter Aaron Clark
• Zusatzinfo: 17 Illustrations including: - 17 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: art song • Cuba • Latin American music • Latin American Studies • Musical nationalism • music composition • music studies • Performance of song • Performance practice • Song and Nationalism • South America • Spain
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8163-3 / 1498581633
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8163-9 / 9781498581639