Silvestre Revueltas : sounds of a political passion / Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolb, Roberto, author.

Series:

Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.

Oxford scholarship online.

Currents in Latin American & Iberian music

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Mexico--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Political aspects--Mexico.

Revueltas, Silvestre, 1899-1940.

Revueltas, Silvestre.

Revueltas, Silvestre, 1899-1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Revueltas, Silvestre, 1899-1940--Political activity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (737 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This title shows how Silvestre Revueltas, strongly inspired by the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, sought ways to sound the voice of the commoners wandering the Mexican streets, as well as that of gypsy miners in Spain, Black women in the U.S. South, and slaves in Cuba in colonial times.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Silvestre Revueltas

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Companion Website

General Introduction

PART I: Silvestre Revueltas: A Political Composer

1. Political Being and Doing: A Social Biography

2. Political Soundings: Change through Art

PART II: Targeting Western Modernity: De-​colonial Avant-​Gardism

3. Epistemic Disobedience: Surrealist and Dadaist Soundings?

4. The Lure of the Russian Revolution: Machinist Soundings

5. The Art of the Streets: Sounding "The Piercing Cries of the Poor and Helpless Street Vendor"

6. Breaking Down False Consciousness: The Musical Irony behind Revueltas' "Geometric Dance"

Introduction to Parts III, IV, and V

PART III: How (Not) to Sound the Nation

7. Magueyes (1931) and Música de feria (1932)

8. Colorines (1932)

9. Alcancías (Three Pieces for Orchestra) (1932)

10. Janitzio (1933/​1936)

11. 8 × radio (1933)

PART IV: Sounding Utopia: Revueltas' Musical Allegories of Revolution

12. Composing for the People

13. Spain in the Heart: Revueltas and the Civil War in Spain

14. Nostalgia of the Future: Sounding Allegories of Liberation through Poetry and Music (coauthored with Susana González-​Aktories)

PART V: Colonialist Reception and Continued Colonizing of Revueltas' Music

15. Aberrant Reception Yesterday: Views from Within and Without

Some Closing Thoughts: Revueltas' Exile Within

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 18, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Kolb-Neuhaus, Roberto Silvestre Revueltas

ISBN:

0-19-762837-0

0-19-762836-2

0-19-762835-4

OCLC:

1376933712