Playing in the cathedral
Subtitle: music, race, and status in eighteenth-century New Spain
By: Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian music
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780190236816; 9780190612672
Subjects: Social aspects; Church musicians; Music; Music and race; History
Description: This work explores how cathedral musicians in eighteenth-century Mexico City relied on music and on their institutional affiliation to define their social place. In the tensions that brewed within New Spain's racial casta (or caste) system, people of mixed race increasingly competed for Spanish benefits and prerogatives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.