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The exotic self : Mexican and Brazilian modernists abroad and at home / Chelsea Burns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Chelsea, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in music theory.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in music theory
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Latin America--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Mexico--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music--Brazil--20th century--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Music)--Mexico--History--20th century.
- Modernism (Music).
- Modernism (Music)--Brazil--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- When Europeans and North Americans listen to music by Latin American composers, what do they hear? What, for that matter, do these composers' compatriots hear? The answer, historically, has been the sound of the nation. Scholars, critics, patrons, and audiences have often suggested that Latin American music either does or ought to reflect an aesthetic supposedly inherent in Latin American cultures and even bodies. Marshaling historically informed close readings of musical text, 'The Exotic Self' reveals the voluminous meanings of works historically pigeonholed by identity-driven assumptions.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Music Examples and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction
- National/Exotic, Self/Other
- In Lieu of Nationalism
- Materials and Methodology
- A Roadmap
- PART I: CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES
- 1 Negotiating Identities: Carlos Chávez and the Trouble with Musical Nationalism
- Nationalism: Ambiguities and Slippage
- Complicating Nationalist Intent
- Nationalist Gestures and Their Analytical Instantiations
- The Disappearing Self: La paloma azul
- Alternative Analytical Considerations
- A Wider Phenomenon
- 2 False Choices: The Elusive Promise of Música Universal
- Andrade's Ideals, Villa-Lobos's Realities
- National Pressures: Mário de Andrade and Música Universal
- Villa-Lobos and the Semana de Arte Moderna, 1922
- International Pressures: Villa-Lobos in Paris, 1923
- A Comparative Analysis
- String Quartet No. 3
- Nonetto: Impressão rápida de todo o Brasil
- String Quartet No. 5
- Unreachable Universality
- 3 Subversion and Polysemy
- Reductive Readings
- Alternative Reading: "Los magueyes"
- Of Music and Class
- Further Analytical Possibilities
- Carlos Chávez: Different Terms, Same Limits
- H.P.
- Interpretive Differences
- Facing Pressures, Seeking Alternatives
- PART II: IDENTITIES, TROPES, AND CASE STUDIES
- 4 Popular Music as National Music
- Changing Reception of Música Popular
- The Changing Meaning of Blackness
- Heitor Villa-Lobos, Chôros no. 4
- Música Erudita in Chôros no. 4
- An All-Encompassing Identity
- Francisco Mignone's Primeira fantasia brasileira
- Brazilian or Italian?
- Primeira fantasia brasileira
- Luciano Gallet's Turana
- Conclusion: Personal Contexts, National Discourse
- 5 Canción as Case Study: The Domestic Politics of Vernacular Music in Mexico.
- The Primer Congreso
- Ponce and Canción
- Working-Class Priorities
- Artistic Transformation
- Revisiting La paloma azul
- Revisiting String Quartet No. 2
- 6 Indigeneity and Fantastical Distance
- Indigeneity in Music, Broadly Speaking
- An Evolutionary Approach: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Tres poêmas indigenas (1927)
- 1. "Canide Ioune - Sabath"
- 2. "Teirú"
- 3. "Iára"
- A Progressive, "Modern Indian"
- Postlude: A Friendlier, Safer "Indian"
- José Rolón and Shifting Indigeneities
- Complications of Contemporary Indigeneity and the Appeal of the Precolonial
- Cuauhtémoc (1930)
- Layered Indigeneity: Silvestre Revueltas, Cuauhnáhuac (1931/1932)
- Functions of Indigeneity
- Epilogue: On Incompleteness
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 3, 2025).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-779289-8
- 0-19-779287-1
- 0-19-779288-X
- OCLC:
- 1514300700
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