Latin American Art Song (eBook)

Patricia Caicedo is a Colombian-Spanish soprano. She holds a PhD in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a MD from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina. Patricia is the founder and director of the Barcelona Festival of Song, a summer program dedicated to the study of the history and interpretation of the Iberian and Latin American art song repertoire.

Foreword by Walter ClarkPreludeIntroductionChapter 1: The sounds of the imagined nationsTowards a broader definition of nationalismLatin America: multiple identitiesMusical nationalism in Latin AmericaLatin American National Anthems: Towards a national identity? Salon music and the influence of Italian operaThe construction of the national sound beginsCreolismAlberto Nepomuceno: Song in PortugueseDeveloping the National StyleAlberto Williams and the stylization of folk songThe double verbal-musical nature of song: Latin American composers setting Latin American poems to musicChapter 2: A creative stormArt song as a medium of expression of modernist nationalismArgentinaBrazilCubaPerúVenezuelaChapter 3: New facets of the concept of nationalism in the 20th century Art song since 1940 Alberto Ginastera: from a national style to a national atmosphereCarlos Guastavino: the voice of traditionJaime León: a Pan-American voiceThe Nueva Canción Latinoamericana movement and its relation to art songChapter 4: Towards a musical transnationalism or the dissolution of borders. Transnationalism: multiple places or the non-placeA transnational composer: Moisès Bertran (Catalunya, 1967)Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, multi-locality, neo-nationalism?Chapter 5: Performance practice of Latin American Art Song The concept of performance practicePerformance: a space of communication between performers and audienceThe performance of art song: an integrative spaceArt song and its performanceFolk song and its performancePopular song and its performanceLooking for the borders between Art song and Folk song: Following the steps of Marcel DuchampPierre Bourdieu and the concepts of field and habitus applied to the study of songMeaning-producing agents in the world of songMeaning-producing agents in the sub-field of art songPerformance context of art songMeaning-producing agents in the sub-field of folk songPerformance context of folk songMeaning-producing agents in the sub-field of popular songPerformance context of popular songThe dual status of folk and art song: Marcel Duchamp and the “ready-mades”Song: an elastic, flexible and integrating spaceProposals for a new performance practice of Latin American art songDiscographyBibliography