Music and Identity in Venezuela

Adriana Ponce is an associate professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, USA. She holds a PhD in musicology from Brandeis University, USA. Her research interests revolve around questions of form in 19th-century art music and Venezuelan traditional musics. She has presented at numerous conferences of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory (USA); the Society of Music Analysis and the Royal Musical Association (UK); the Fryderyk Chopin Institute (Poland); and similar societies in Belgium and the Netherlands. She was also invited to deliver a guest lecture in the Carrigan Music Theory Lecture Series at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Her publications include “Memory and Non-linear, End-Oriented Coherence in Chopin’s Nocturnes”; “Form, Diversity and Lack of Fulfillment in Schumann’s Fantasie Op. 17; and Sounds Around Us, Vol. 1–5 (a theory, solfege, and musicianship method developed for the Edward Said National Conservatory in collaborations with Habib Shehadeh and Hania Souddah-Sabara).

1. Music and Identity in Venezuela: An Introduction 2. Simón Díaz and the Tonada llanera: The Forging of a Referent for Modern Venezuelan Identity 3. Relocating the Nativity in Song and Celebration 4. Corpus Christi Reinterpreted: Power Dynamics and African Diaspora in Venezuela’s Dancing Devils 5. To the Beat of African Drums: Afro-Venezuelan Music and Identity through Betsayda Machado and La Parranda El Clavo 6. Indigenous Identitary Resistance in 20th- and 21st-Century Venezuela: Pumé and Wayuu Musical Cultures 7. Patriotic "Glosses": Generic Mutations, Appropriation, and Identity in the Venezuelan National Anthem 8. Intellectual Thought Behind Venezuelan Musical Nationalism: Ideas, Values, Beliefs 9. A Ten-Year Break? On Nationalist Music Historiography in Venezuela 10. Teresa Carreño’s Repatriation and Revival: Nationalism, Feminism, and the Historical Imagination 11. Unknown Pioneers: Approaches to Atonality and Serialism in Venezuelan Composition, 1950–1967