Sounds of the modern nation
Subtitle: music, culture, and ideas in post-revolutionary Mexico
By: Alejandro L. Madrid.
Series: Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781592136940
Subjects: Music -- Mexico -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Nationalism in music
Description: "Sounds of the Modern Nation explores the development of modernist and avant-garde art music styles and aesthetics in Mexico in relation to the social and cultural changes that affected the country after the 1910-1920 revolution. Alejandro Madrid argues that these modernist works provide insight into the construction of individual and collective identities based on new ideas about modernity and nationality. Instead of depicting a dichotomy between modernity and nationalism, Madrid reflects on the multiple intersections between these two ideas and the dialogic ways through which these notions acquired meaning." "Madrid challenges the view that Latin American modernist music and other arts were mere imitations of European trends, advancing instead the argument that Latin American artists resignified European ideas according to their specific historical and cultural circumstances. His work shows how microtonal and futurist music, modernist and avant-garde aesthetics, as well as indigenist and indianist ideas entered a process of negotiation that ultimately shaped the ideological framework of twentieth-century Mexico."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernism, teleology, and identity : toward a cultural understanding of Julian Carrillo's Sonido 13; title: The avant-garde as a site of identification : style and ideology in Carlos Chavez's early music; title: Manuel M. Ponce, from 19th-century modernismo to 20th-century modernism; title: The sounds of the nation, modernity, and tradition : the First National Congress of Music as synecdoche of discourses; title: Porfirian music in revolutionary times : Atzimba and the imagination of "the indigenous"; title: Ideas, canon, revolution, and places in history : Carlos Chavez and his relationships with Julian Carrillo and Manuel M. Ponce.