Format:
1 Online-Ressource (369 pages)
ISBN:
9781317551133
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Why Study Mexican Music? -- Mutually Engaged Audiences -- Examining Music as an Integrative Frame -- Immigrant Identities and Contributions -- Geographies and Contexts -- Examining Difference, Evaluating Concepts of the Essential -- Historical Frames and Contemporary Practice -- Harmonizing Conflicting Realities -- Perspectives for Study -- Performance and Reception -- Knowing Mexico -- Concluding Reflections -- One Example, Many Experiences -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- Websites -- CHAPTER 2 Defining and Listening to Mexican Music -- Evocation and Perception -- Categorizing Music -- Stylistic Exchange: "Sandunga" -- Terms and Perspectives for Assessing Sound -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- CHAPTER 3 Pre-Cortesian and Indigenous Music, Past and Present -- PART I ANCIENT VOICES -- An Opening Song -- Early History -- Music in Ancient Indigenous Life: Ancient Beliefs and Practices -- Professional Training-Picture Yourself as a Cuicapiztle -- Native Musical Instruments -- Names and Categories of Ancient Aztec Instruments -- Idiophones -- Membranophones -- Aerophones -- Chordophones (post-contact) -- What did the Music of Ancient Aztecs Sound Like? -- Reconstruction and Motivations -- Building a New Nation upon Ancient Sounds -- Reclaiming Indigenous Autonomy -- Reflecting on Archaic Indigenous Practice -- PART II LIVING INDIGENOUS MUSIC, TRADITIONS APART -- Who are the Living Indigenous People of Mexico? -- Adaptive Musical Practice -- Cora and Huichol Music.
Content:
Yoeme (Yaqui) Ritual and Musical Practice -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- Films and Videos -- CHAPTER 4 Majesty, Machismo, Mestizaje, and Other Legacies of the Vice-Kingdom of New Spain -- Romances and Relations: Sex and Gender in Song and Deed -- Mestizaje and the Legends of La Malinche -- Imperial Catholic Rule and Music -- Religious Dance Dramas -- Racial, Ethnic, and Social Divisions, and Resulting Musical Practice -- From the Chapel Schools to the People-The Villancico -- Two Villancicos by Gaspar Fernandes -- Instrumental Music Legacies -- Transformative Frames: From the Chapel School to Wind Band -- Oaxaca's Famous Wind Band Schools -- Fusing Heritage and Purpose-The Example of the Matachines -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- CHAPTER 5 Colonial Legacies and Regional Responses: Sones Regionales -- A Modern Trío Reflects -- Historical Perspectives: Many Mexicos -- Oral History and Invented Tradition -- Popular Music during the Colonial Era -- Son and its Theatrical Roots -- Characteristics of Son -- Varieties of Son -- "La petenera": Regional Interpretations of Hispanic Legend -- Additional Regional Types of Son -- Son istmeño -- Son jarocho -- Sones de arpa grande de la tierra caliente, The Hotlands of Michoacán -- Son guerrerense, from the Tierra Caliente of Guerrero -- A Return to Son huasteco-Huapango huasteco -- Regional Son and the Rise of the Mariachi -- Son jalisciense and Son abajeño -- Mariachi Instruments -- Jáuregui's History of Mariachi through "La negra" -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes.
Content:
For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- Films and Videos -- CHAPTER 6 Sound Foundations for Independence -- From Battle Cry to the National Anthem -- Music in Imperial Mexico -- Santa Anna's Rebellious Republic -- Conflicting Identities: Mayapax Fiddle Music and the Caste War of the Yucatan -- German and Irish Immigration to Mexico -- The Mexican-American War -- The French Invasion and the Lingering Farewell -- Music in the Restored Republic -- The Rise of the Jarabe and Official Folkloric Representation -- Advancing Formal Music Education -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- Films and Videos -- Websites -- CHAPTER 7 Immigration and Cosmopolitan Identity during the Porfiriato -- Setting the Scene: An episode from Chin Chun Chan -- Defining the Porfiriato -- Technology and Connection -- Transportation, Industry, and Immigration -- The Chinese in Mexico: Some Historical Background -- The Zarzuela: From Spain to Mexico -- The Creation of Chin Chun Chan -- Theater at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century -- Production History -- Experimental Revivals of Chin Chun Chan -- Confronting Charges of Racism -- Popular Musical Conventions in Chin Chun Chan -- Significance of Chin Chun Chan -- The National Conservatory and Formal Musical Institutions -- Juventino Rosas, A Crossover Artist -- The orquesta típica -- Travel and Cosmopolitan Song -- Opera in Mexico -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- Videos and Films -- Websites -- CHAPTER 8 Gifts of the Revolution -- Pre-Revolutionary Corridos -- Madero's Decisive Uprising -- Corridos of the Revolution -- Pancho Villa in Song -- Women in Corridos.
Content:
The Tumultuous 1920s -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- Websites -- CHAPTER 9 Cinema, Radio, and the Celebrity Cantante -- Transformative Imagination: Picture This -- Technological Interplay and the Collective Imagination -- The Golden Era of Mexican Film 1930-1960 -- Iconic Performance and the Reflective Gaze -- Re-Imagining the Mexican Cowboy in Allá en el rancho grande -- Indio Fernández's Synthesis of Romance and Politics -- Integrating the Rural Life of the Nation in Flor Silvestre -- Cosmopolitan Integrations and the Danzón in Salón México -- From Club to Concert Hall -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- CHAPTER 10 New Song and Rock Mexicano -- Introduction: The Lull and the Storm -- The Latin American New Song Movement in Mexico -- The Social Environment During the Early Rock Era -- Rocanrol in the 1950s -- Changing Practices -- La Onda Chicana -- The Move Underground -- New Opportunities in the 1980s -- The 1990s to the Present -- Bi-Nationalism and Beyond in the Twenty-First Century -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- Films and Videos -- CHAPTER 11 Competing Popular Styles -- The Wedding Playlist as Pop Catalog -- Two Pillars of Northern Dominance -- The Conjunto Style from Early to Modern Practice -- Early Norteño Masters -- The Texas-Mexican Conjunto -- Lydia Mendoza's Breaking of Gender Restrictions -- Waila: An Indigenous Response to Expanding Influences -- Los Tigres del Norte -- The Narcocorrido -- Migration and Cross-Border Exchange.
Content:
From Regional Banda to Transnational Tecnobanda -- Balada and the Grupera Movement -- Commercializing the Balada -- Cumbia, Quebradita, and Youth Dance Clubs -- Pasito Duranguense -- Techno Cumbia aka Música "Tribal" -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- Films and Videos -- CHAPTER 12 Classical Contemporary Music: New Frames for New Audiences -- The National Institute of Fine Arts: Nexus and Radiating Influence -- Silvestre Revueltas and the Post-Revolutionary Arts Brigades -- Extending Nationalist Sentiment: Moncayo's Huapango -- Post-National Expression: Manuel Enríquez -- The Modern Composer as Philosopher: Mario Lavista -- Dramatic Alliances: Marcela Rodríguez -- Concluding Reflections -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- Key Terms, People, and Places -- Notes -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- Films and Videos -- CHAPTER 13 A Despedida and Closing Reflections -- Integration, Influence, and Confluence -- Beautiful Little Sky-"Cielito lindo" -- Departures -- Closing Questions -- Critical Thinking and Discussion Prompts -- For Reference and Further Study -- Discography -- List of Audio Examples and Credits -- List of Video Examples and Credits -- Index -- Plates.
Additional Edition:
9781138843080
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sturman, Janet The Course of Mexican Music London : Routledge,c2015 9781138843080
Language:
English
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