Cultural History of the Guitar in Latin America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Díaz-Santana Garza, Luis.

Contributor:

Díaz-Santana Garza, Luis.

Series:

Series in Music Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, DE : Vernon Art and Science Inc., 2025.

Summary:

The objective of this book is to disseminate the rich history of the guitar in Latin America, with special emphasis on Mexico, covering a period that goes from the viceregal age to the present day. The collaborators are some of the most outstanding guitarists and researchers of the instrument from Chile, Mexico, Guatemala and the United States. The chapters aim to explore the composers, performers, repertoire and construction of the guitar since the sixteenth century in Latin America and the US, but also to comprehend the social role and economic ecosystem of the instrument. Due to the long chronology proposed, the book not only deals with the modern guitar, but also with the baroque guitar, and there is even a chapter dedicated to the traditional instruments that have historically been heirs to the Spanish guitar. The originality of this work resides in the use of historical and humanistic tools. It is based on a current bibliography, and it is one of the first books published in English on the history of the guitar in Latin America.

Contents:

Part I. Guitar in history. The guitar in the Viceroyalty of Peru / Alejandro Vera ; Diego Risueño, a peninsular musician before the Novohispanic Inquisition (1580-1602) / Juan Frajoza ; Scale exercises for five-course guitar from a late Guatemalan manuscript / Juan Pablo Pira Martínez ; Perceptions of the guitar in Mexican periodicals, poems and chronicles : from the end of viceroyality to the ninteenth century / Luis Díaz-Santana Garza ; Builders and importers of guitars in México and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Sonia Medrano Ruiz, Luis Díaz-Santana Garza

Part II. Guitar in popular music. Más allá de la Guardia Vieja : tango guitar in the long nineteenth century / Eric Johns ; "Sin guitarra no hay canción" : Mexican rural culture in canción ranchera / Arturo Javier Ramírez Estrada, Erika Beatriz Morales Trejo, Luis Díaz-Santana Garza ; Two jarana models from western and southern México : tierra caliente and mixteca, twentieth century / Alejandro Martínez de la Rosa

Part III. The classical guitar. "If the guitar hadn't existed, I would have invented it" : Andrés Segovia and his debut in México in 1923 / Luis Díaz-Santana Garza ; The hidden repertoire of the Mexican guitar, 1923-1960 / Enrique Salmerón.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798881902476

OCLC:

1520917867