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Music in Ibero-America to 1850
Daniel Mendoza de Arce
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Description for Music in Ibero-America to 1850
Hardback. This study of Music and Music Activities in Ibero-America to 1850 emphasizes historical data rather than musical analysis. Folk and popular music are mentioned only to the extent that they have affected the cultivated strains of Ibero-American music. Of interest to music historians and students of Ibero-American culture. Num Pages: 744 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KL; AV; GTB; HBT; JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1144.
When Latin Americans think of high art they do so primarily in terms of literature and the visual arts. In addition, the study of the first three centuries has until recently taken the back seat in the standard literature dealing with the music of that part of the world. This trend must be reversed for the lands south of the border to arrive at a broader understanding of their place in the world culture. This book attempts to redress the situation by providing the curious layman and the serious researcher with the tools to further clarify the role of cultivated ... Read more
When Latin Americans think of high art they do so primarily in terms of literature and the visual arts. In addition, the study of the first three centuries has until recently taken the back seat in the standard literature dealing with the music of that part of the world. This trend must be reversed for the lands south of the border to arrive at a broader understanding of their place in the world culture. This book attempts to redress the situation by providing the curious layman and the serious researcher with the tools to further clarify the role of cultivated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
744
Condition
New
Number of Pages
744
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810839977
SKU
V9780810839977
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About Daniel Mendoza de Arce
Daniel Mendoza de Arce has taught at several universities in the U.S. and abroad. He has done research on colonial Uruguayan as well as Puerto Rican art music and society, and has published widely on topics ranging from music aesthetics to the epistemology of the social sciences.
Reviews for Music in Ibero-America to 1850
...fills an important lacuna, in presenting a broad historical survey of the cultivation of music in Latin America from its discovery and settlement by Europeans to the beginnings of the modern age in 1850....Mendoza de Arce has made an important contribution in presenting in English so much information that was hitherto inaccessible to those who do not read Spanish and ... Read more