The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations
- Author: Caicedo, Patricia
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$49.25Contents
- Foreword by Walter Clark
- Prelude
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The sounds of the imagined nations
- Towards a broader definition of nationalism
- Latin America: multiple identities
- Musical nationalism in Latin America
- Latin American National Anthems: Towards a national identity?
- Salon music and the influence of Italian opera
- The construction of the national sound begins
- Creolism
- Alberto Nepomuceno: Song in Portuguese
- Developing the National Style
- Alberto Williams and the stylization of folk song
- The double verbal-musical nature of song: Latin American composers setting Latin American poems to music
- Chapter 2: A creative storm
- Art song as a medium of expression of modernist nationalism
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Cuba
- Peru
- Venezuela
- Chapter 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 atmosphere
- Carlos Guastavino: the voice of tradition
- Jaime Leon: a Pan-American voice
- The Nueva Cancion Latinoamericana movement and its relation to art song
- Chapter 4: Towards a musical transnationalism or the dissolution of borders.
- Transnationalism: multiple places or the non-place
- A transnational composer: Moises Bertran (Catalunya, 1967)
- Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, multi-locality, neo-nationalism?
- Chapter 5: Performance practice of Latin American Art Song
- The concept of performance practice
- Performance: a space of communication between performers and audience
- The performance of art song: an integrative space
- Art song and its performance
- Folk song and its performance
- Popular song and its performance
- Looking for the borders between Art song and Folk song: Following the steps of Marcel Duchamp
- Pierre Bourdieu and the concepts of field and habitus applied to the study of song
- Meaning-producing agents in the world of song
- Meaning-producing agents in the sub-field of art song
- Performance context of art song
- Meaning-producing agents in the sub-field of folk song
- Performance context of folk song
- Meaning-producing agents in the sub-field of popular song
- Performance context of popular song
- The dual status of folk and art song: Marcel Duchamp and the "ready-mades"
- Song: an elastic, flexible and integrating space
- Proposals for a new performance practice of Latin American art song
- Discography
- Bibliography