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The power of song : music and dance in the mission communities of northern New Spain, 1590-1810 / Kristin Dutcher Mann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mann, Kristin Dutcher, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects--Mexico--History.
- Music--Religious aspects--United States--History.
- Music--Religious aspects--Mexico--History.
- Indians of North America--Colonization--United States.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Colonization--Mexico.
- Missionaries--United States--History.
- Missionaries.
- Missionaries--Mexico--History.
- Music--History--Social aspects--United States.
- Music--History--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Music--Religious aspects--History--United States.
- Missionaries--History--Mexico.
- Missionaries--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 300 pages ) illustrations, maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the music and dance of Franciscan and Jesuit mission communities throughout the entire northern frontier of New Spain. Its purpose is to examine the roles music played: in teaching, evangelisation, celebration, and the formation of group identities. This book looks comprehensively at the music of this region and time period, and utilises music as a way to study the cultural interactions between Indians and missionaries.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- Part I. Musical Traditions
- Chapter 1. Reconstructing Indigenous Music and Dance
- Chapter 2. Liturgical and Religious Music in Europe, 1500-1800
- Part II. Mission Mus
- Chapter 3. Musical Cultures Meet
- Chapter 4. Music, Dance, and Community, 1680-1767
- Chapter 5. Changing Communities, 1768-1810
- Part III. Song, Time, and Space
- Chapter 6. Music and the Restructuring of Time
- Chapter 7. Music and the Restructuring of Physical and Social Space
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-292) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780804773812
- 0804773815
- OCLC:
- 1294425005
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