The Latin American Art Song - Patricia Caicedo

The Latin American Art Song

Sounds of the Imagined Nations
Buch | Softcover
202 Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8164-6 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
This study of the Latin American art song and its development in the context of musical nationalism shows how the song is a mirror in which the processes of conformation to Latin American national identity are reflected.
Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses in the art songs of Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Perú, and Colombia. The book addresses the subject of performance practice of the Latin American song and ends with a proposal for its interpretation.

In songs, spaces of representation and cathartic tools thought, language and music have been at the service of some interests, fulfilling specific functions in the construction of the nation. In them, we observe that the construction of identity is a continuous, constant and changing process in which different stories are superimposed. Seen this way, songs are historical texts where social interactions are reflected, and the past, the present and the future are constantly negotiated.

The book also addresses the subject of performance practice of the Latin American song and ends with a proposal for its interpretation.

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 Clark



Prelude



Introduction



Chapter 1: The sounds of the imagined nations



Towards a broader definition of nationalism



Latin America: multiple identities



Musical nationalism in Latin America



Latin American National Anthems: Towards a national identity?



Salon music and the influence of Italian opera



The construction of the national sound begins



Creolism



Alberto Nepomuceno: Song in Portuguese



Developing the National Style



Alberto Williams and the stylization of folk song



The double verbal-musical nature of song: Latin American composers setting Latin American poems to music



Chapter 2: A creative storm



Art song as a medium of expression of modernist nationalism



Argentina



Brazil



Cuba



Perú



Venezuela



Chapter 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 atmosphere



Carlos Guastavino: the voice of tradition



Jaime León: a Pan-American voice



The Nueva Canción Latinoamericana movement and its relation to art song



Chapter 4: Towards a musical transnationalism or the dissolution of borders.



Transnationalism: multiple places or the non-place



A 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 practice



Performance: a space of communication between performers and audience



The performance of art song: an integrative space



Art song and its performance



Folk song and its performance



Popular song and its performance



Looking for the borders between Art song and Folk song: Following the steps of Marcel Duchamp



Pierre Bourdieu and the concepts of field and habitus applied to the study of song



Meaning-producing agents in the world of song



Meaning-producing agents in the sub-field of art song



Performance context of art song



Meaning-producing agents in the sub-field of folk song



Performance context of folk song



Meaning-producing agents in the sub-field of popular song



Performance context of popular song



The dual status of folk and art song: Marcel Duchamp and the “ready-mades”



Song: an elastic, flexible and integrating space



Proposals for a new performance practice of Latin American art song



Discography



Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Walter Aaron Clark
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 231 mm
Gewicht 290 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4985-8164-1 / 1498581641
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-8164-6 / 9781498581646
Zustand Neuware
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