| Series |
Currents in Latin American and Iberian music
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| Contents |
Neoclassicism Meets 1940s Pan Americanism : The Grupo de Renovación Musical as the First Cuban School of Composition -- The Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo : Precursor to the Cuban Revolutionary Cultural Projects, 1950-1958 -- A Decade of Revolution and Experimentation in Music : Grafting Experimentalism onto the Cuban Revolutionary-Socialist Trunk -- Institutionalization and Fissures in the Cuban Classical Music Landscape : the 1970s -- "Hacia nuevos horizontes" : Electroacoustic Music and Globalization in 1980s Cuba -- Epilogue. El 'perÃodo especial' que nunca termina/The Never-Ending Special Period. |
| Abstract |
"This book tells readers: tracing the classical music networks that Cuban composers cultivated between 1940 and 1991 through examining compositions, ensembles, and cultural institutions with a microhistorical approach. It sets the foundation for investigating how aesthetics and politics intersected in the case studies explored throughout the book: individual points of view largely determined the degree to which composers engaged in various local and international artistic networks; and these networks were constantly being nurtured and shaped by their actors, who also had to contend with national and global political and economic circumstances. This chapter provides readers with working definitions of key concepts: modernism, avant-garde, experimentalism, and vanguardia. Key figures Fernando Ortiz and Alejo Carpentier and their contributions to the intellectual milieu that Cuban composers inhabited -especially the concepts of transculturation and lo real maravilloso, respectively-are also discussed. It contextualizes the book within existing scholarship on 20th-century classical music of the Americas, Eastern Europe, and the Cold War, as well as those dealing with Cuban music and Cuban studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023006130 |
| ISBN | 9780197552230 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
