Representing the good neighbor : music, difference, and the Pan American dream / Carol A. Hess.

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Hess, Carol A [author.]

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TextSeries: Currents in Latin American & Iberian musicPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xix, 303 pages) : illustrations, musicContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199920006
0199920001
9780199345618
0199345619

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Representing the good neighborDDC classification:

780 23

LOC classification:

ML199.5 .H47 2013eb

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Contents:

The roots of musical Pan Americanism -- Carlos Chávez and ur-classicism -- The good neighbor onstage : Carlos Chávez's H.P. and dialectical indigenism -- Caliban and unsublimated primitivism : Villa-Lobos at the 1939 World's Fair -- The golden age : Pan Americanist culture, war, and the triumph of universalism -- Alberto Ginastera's Bomarzo in the United States : antinationalism and the Cold War -- Memory, music, and the Latin American Cold War : Frederic Rzewski's 36 variations on "The people united will never be defeated!"

Summary: In this work, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the Pan American movement of the 1930s and 40s. Hess uncovers how and why attitudes towards Latin American music shifted so dramatically during the middle of the 20th century, and what this tells us about the ways in which the history of American music has been written.

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In this work, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the Pan American movement of the 1930s and 40s. Hess uncovers how and why attitudes towards Latin American music shifted so dramatically during the middle of the 20th century, and what this tells us about the ways in which the history of American music has been written.

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