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Experimentalisms in practice : music perspectives from Latin America / edited by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera and Alejandro L. Madrid.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Avant-garde (Music)--Latin America--History--20th century.
- Avant-garde (Music).
- Music--Latin America--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This work problematizes the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives about experimental musical practices. Contributors take a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin and Latin American music traditions conceived and/or perceived as experimental.
- Contents:
- The practices of experimentalism in Latin@ and Latin American music: an introduction / Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera, and Alejandro L. Madrid
- Centers and institutions. "That's not something to show in a concert": experimentation and legitimacy at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales / Eduardo Herrera ; Experimental alternatives: institutionalism, avant-gardism, and popular music at the margins of the Cuban revolution / Susan Thomas
- Beyond the limits of hybridity. "I go against the grain of your memory": iconoclastic experiments with traditional sounds in Northeast Brazil / Daniel B. Sharp ; Peruvian cumbia at the theoretical limits of techno-utopian hybridity / Joshua Tucker ; Experimentalism as estrangement: Cafâe Tacvba's Revâes/Yosoy / Alejandro L. Madrid and Pepe Rojo
- Anticolonial practices. Gatas y vatas: female empowerment and community-oriented experimentalism / Ana R. Alonso-Minutti ; Noise, sonic experimentation, and interior coloniality in Costa Rica / Susan Campos Fonseca
- Performance, movements, and scenes. "We began from silence": toward a genealogy of free improvisation in Mexico City: Atrâas del Cosmos at Teatro El Galeâon, 1975-1977 / Tamar Barzel ; Experimentation and improvisation in Bogotâa at the end of the twentieth century / Rodolfo Acosta ; Experimental music and the avant-garde in post-1959 Cuba: revolutionary music for the revolution / Marysol Quevedo ; Performance, resistance, and the sounding of public space: Movimiento Mâusica Mâas in Buenos Aires, 1969-1973 / Andrew Raffo Dewar
- Afterword: Locating hemispheric experimentalisms / Benjamin Piekut.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780190842772
- 0190842776
- 9780190842789
- 0190842784
- 9780190842765
- 0190842768
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