Playing in the Cathedral: Music, Race, and Status in New Spain

ISBN-13: 9780190236816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 248 str.

Jesaus A. Ramos-Kittrell; Jeszs A. Ramos-Kittrell; Jesus a. Ramos-Kittrell

Opis

In eighteenth-century Mexico City, cathedral musicians made explicit and considered use of music and institutional affiliation in order to construct their Spanish identity.

Recenzje

Playing in the Cathedral is an informative and incisive case study. The author describes the soundscape of Bourbon Mexico City, illuminates the world of musical performance (then, as now, filled with clashing personalities and competitive machinations), and clearly explicates — without becoming too technical — the ongoing changes in music theory. Most importantly, he demonstrates how musicians participated in and responded to contemporary socioeconomic and cultural processes.

O autorze

Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell is Assistant Professor of Music History at Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts.The work of Professor Ramos-Kittrell focuses on the intersection of religious and secular thought as a basic tension that shaped early modernity culture. Specifically, he is concerned with how music in New Spain articulated social meanings and perceptions in relation to the political and economic landscape of the early modern Hispanic world.