Sonorous worlds : musical enchantment in Venezuela / Yana Stainova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stainova, Yana, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Music and social justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela.

Music--Instruction and study--Venezuela.

Music.

Music--Social aspects--Venezuela.

Music and youth--Venezuela.

Music and youth.

Music--Social aspects.

Music--Instruction and study.

Venezuela.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

El Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by economist and musician José Antonio Abreu, the institution has weathered seven jolting changes in government. Hugo Chávez and, after his death, the incumbent president Nicolás Maduro enthusiastically included the institution into the political agenda of the socialist project and captured the affective power of music for their own aims. Fueled by the oil boom in the 2000s, El Sistema grew over the years to encompass 1,210 orchestras for children and youth in Venezuela, reached almost 1 million people out of the 30 million in the country, and served as a model in more than 35 countries around the world. Sonorous Worlds is an ethnography of the young Venezuelan musicians who participate in El Sistema, many of whom live in urban barrios and face everyday gang violence, state repression, social exclusion, and forced migration in response to sociopolitical crisis. This book looks at how these youth engage with what the author calls "enchantment," that is, how they use musical practices to escape, rupture, and critique dominant structures of power. Stainova's focus on artistic practice and enchantment allows her to theorize the successes and failures of political projects through the lens of the everyday transformations in people's lives.

Contents:

1 Touched by Music p. 31

2 Dreaming within Systems p. 35

3 El Sistema p. 47

II Enchantment

4 Superación p. 59

5 The Life Behind the Music p. 67

6 Musical Vitalities p. 73

7 The Sonorous Gift p. 82

8 Enchantment as Method p. 90

9 An Enchanted Reading p. 99

III Aspiration

10 Violence p. 107

11 The Labor of Enchantment p. 115

12 Revolutionary Mothering p. 122

13 Sonic Citizenship p. 132

IV Power

14 Temporalities p. 143

15 The Ineffable p. 152

16 The Hearing State p. 159

17 The Dictatorship of Luxury p. 166

18 Sonorous Silence p. 176

19 Spaces of Social Ineffability p. 188

20 Dancing Energies p. 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472129355

047212935X

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.