Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019084275X ISBN 13: 9780190842758

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks. Challenging the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives, contributors take a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin@ and Latin American music traditions conceived or perceived as experimental. The conversation takes as starting point the 1960s, a decade that marks a crucial political and epistemological moment for Latin America; militant and committed aesthetic practices resonated with this moment, resulting in a multiplicity of artistic and musical experimental expressions.

Experimentalisms in Practice responds to recent efforts to reframe and reconceptualize the study of experimental music in terms of epistemological perspective and geographic scope, while also engaging traditional scholarship. This book contributes to the current conversations about music experimentalism while providing new points of entry to further reevaluate the field.

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About the Author

Ana R. Alonso-Minutti is a music scholar who combines musicological and ethnomusicological inquiries into the study of contemporary musical practices across the Americas. Her research focuses on experimental and avant-garde expressions, music traditions from Mexico and the US-Mexico border, and music history pedagogy. She has presented her work in the Americas and Europe and has published her research in English and Spanish venues. She is assistant professor of music and faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico.

Eduardo Herrera is assistant professor in ethnomusicology and music history at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He specializes in contemporary musical practices from Latin America. His research interests include music and gender, art and the legitimation of elites, and music during the Cold War. He has done historical and ethnographic research in topics including Argentinean and Uruguayan avant-garde music, masculinity and violence in participatory chanting in soccer stadiums, and music and postcoloniality in Latin America.

Alejandro L. Madrid is a music scholar whose research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition and globalization in music and expressive culture from Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the circum-Caribbean. His books have received the AMS's Robert M. Stevenson and Ruth A. Solie awards, the Béla Bartók Award from the ASCAP Foundation, the Mexico Humanities Book award from LASA, IASPM's Woody Guthrie Book Award, and the Casa de las Américas Musicology Prize. He is professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at Cornell University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019084275X
• ISBN 13: 9780190842758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Alonso-Minutti Ana R., Herrera Eduardo, Madrid Alejandro L.