Title: Playing in the cathedral
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.
Subjects: Social aspects, Church musicians, Music, Music and race, History, Music, mexican, Musicians
Places: Mexico
Time periods: 18th century