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Inca music reimagined : indigenist discourses in Latin American art music, 1910-1930

Title
Inca music reimagined : indigenist discourses in Latin American art music, 1910-1930 / Vera Wolkowicz.
Author
Wolkowicz, Vera
Publication
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
  • ©2022

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Description
xvi, 256 pages : illustrations, map, music; 25 cm.
Summary
"In Inca music reimagined, author Vera Wolkowicz explores Inca discourses in particular as a source for the creation of 'national' and 'continental' art music during the first decades of the twentieth century, concentrating on operas by composers from Peru, Ecuador, and Argentina. To understand this process, Wolkowicz analyzes early twentieth-century writings on Inca music and its origins and describes how certain composers transposed 'Inca' techniques into their own works, and how this music was perceived by local audiences. Ultimately, she argues that the turn to Inca culture and music in the hope of constructing a sense of national unity could only succeed within particular intellectual circles, and that the idea that the inspiration of the Inca could produce a 'music of America' would remain utopian."--Front jacket flap.
Series Statement
Currents in Latin American & Iberian music
Uniform Title
Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Music > South America > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Opera > South America > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Incas > Influence
  • Music > Andes Region > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Opera > Andes Region > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Incas > Music
  • Nationalism in music
  • Ethnicity in music
  • Collective memory in music
  • Pan-Hispanism
  • Incas
  • Music
  • Opera
  • Andes Region
  • South America
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Music.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-249) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Indigenous musical heritage and Latin American art music -- Shaping a continental identity : race, nations, civilizations, utopia, and the arts -- "We are the Incas" : discussing indigenism in national musical discourse in Peru -- To be Inca or not to be Inca? : building Ecuador's musical past -- Argentina and the appropriation of the Inca past -- The Incas go to the opera -- Epilogue : Art music and the Incas: past and present.
Call Number
JME 22-230
ISBN
  • 9780197548943
  • 0197548946
LCCN
2022903687
OCLC
1286957927
Author
Wolkowicz, Vera, author.
Title
Inca music reimagined : indigenist discourses in Latin American art music, 1910-1930 / Vera Wolkowicz.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
still image
notated music
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Currents in Latin American & Iberian music
Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-249) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
JME 22-230
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