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Author Buchanan, Donna A

Title Soundscapes from the Americas : Ethnomusicological Essays on the Power, Poetics, and Ontology of Performance
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages)
Series SOAS Musicology Series
SOAS musicology series.
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Music Examples; Notes on Contributors; Foreword by Richard Bauman; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Doing Ethnomusicology â#x80;#x9C;Texas-Styleâ#x80;#x9D;: A Musical (Re)Turn to Performance; PART I: GENRES, HISTORIES, AND DISCOURSES OF POWER PERFORMED; 1 The Teatro Bufo: Cuban Blackface Theater of the Nineteenth Century; 2 La MÃðsica Nacional: A Metaphor for Contrasting Views of Ecuadorian National Identity; 3 Conserve, Adapt, and Reconverge: Rationalizing a Template in Hawaiâ#x80;#x99;i Puerto Rican Musical Performance
PART II: PERFORMING PRACTICE: STYLE AND THE POLITICS OF SUBJECTIVITY4 Transformation in Communion: Toward an Aesthetic of Improvisation; 5 Feminine Flowers among the Thistles: Gendered Boundaries of Performance in Chilean Canto a lo poeta; PART III: SITUATED EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE POLITICS: FIESTA, FESTIVAL, STAGE, AND STREET; 6 The Way of Sorrows: Performance, Experience, and the Moral Society in Northern Ecuador; 7 Performing Indigeneity: Poetics and Politics of Music Festivals in Highland Bolivia; References
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Subject Music-Latin America-History and criticism
Music-Social aspects-Latin America
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317052388
1317052382