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Hardback. Condition: New. The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca.1909-1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and emblems, while also producing a renewed focus on transnational affinities that generated a series of discourses about continental unity. At the same time, a boom in archaeological explorations, within a general climate of scientific positivism provided Latin Americans with new information about their "grandiose" former civilizations, such as the Inca and the Aztec, which some argued were comparable to ancient Greek and Egyptian cultures. These discourses were at first political, before transitioning to the cultural sphere. As a result, artists and particularly musicians began to move away from European techniques and themes, to produce a distinctive and self-consciously Latin American art. In Inca Music Reimagined author Vera Wolkowicz explores Inca discourses in particular as a source for the creation of "national" and "continental" art music during the first decades of the twentieth century, concentrating on operas by composers from Peru, Ecuador and Argentina. To understand this process, Wolkowicz analyzes early twentieth-century writings on Inca music and its origins and describes how certain composers transposed "Inca" techniques into their own works, and how this music was perceived by local audiences. Ultimately, she argues that the turn to Inca culture and music in the hopes of constructing a sense of national unity could only succeed within particular intellectual circles, and that the idea that the inspiration of the Inca could produce a "music of America" would remain utopian.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This is an edited volume of music historiesof peoples, places, and institutionsthat refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology. With an ironic undertone to the elsewhere in the books title, the volumes contributors grapple with the ethical and democratizing potentials of musicologys recent global turn. The books primary objective is to center perspectives from outside the Euro-American mainstream to create a material difference to the frequent scarcity of non-Western scholarship in the Euro-American conception and practice of music studies. By bringing together a small group of scholars work in a more readily available space given by a sizable Anglo-American publisher, the book aims to enable more multidirectional exchanges and connections to take place in the future. This edited volume is a global music history project that refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This is an edited volume of music historiesof peoples, places, and institutionsthat refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology. With an ironic undertone to the elsewhere in the books title, the volumes contributors grapple with the ethical and democratizing potentials of musicologys recent global turn. The books primary objective is to center perspectives from outside the Euro-American mainstream to create a material difference to the frequent scarcity of non-Western scholarship in the Euro-American conception and practice of music studies. By bringing together a small group of scholars work in a more readily available space given by a sizable Anglo-American publisher, the book aims to enable more multidirectional exchanges and connections to take place in the future. This edited volume is a global music history project that refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This is an edited volume of music historiesof peoples, places, and institutionsthat refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology. With an ironic undertone to the elsewhere in the books title, the volumes contributors grapple with the ethical and democratizing potentials of musicologys recent global turn. The books primary objective is to center perspectives from outside the Euro-American mainstream to create a material difference to the frequent scarcity of non-Western scholarship in the Euro-American conception and practice of music studies. By bringing together a small group of scholars work in a more readily available space given by a sizable Anglo-American publisher, the book aims to enable more multidirectional exchanges and connections to take place in the future. This edited volume is a global music history project that refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is an edited volume of music histories of peoples, places, and institutions that refuses to shy away from the geopolitical realities of a global musicology. With an ironic undertone to the elsewhere in the book s title, the volume s contributors grapple with the ethical and democratizing potentials of musicology s recent global turn. The book s primary objective is to center perspectives from outside the Euro-American mainstream to create a material difference to the frequent scarcity of non-Western scholarship in the Euro-American conception and practice of music studies. By bringing together a small group of scholars work in a more readily available space given by a sizable Anglo-American publisher, the book aims to enable more multidirectional exchanges and connections to take place in the future.…