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
