Carlos Chávez and His World /

Carlos Chávez and His World / / ed. by Leonora Saavedra.

Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chávez was an integral part of the emerging music scene in the United States in the 1920s. His highly...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Aktories, Susana González,
Alonso-Minutti, Ana R.,
Bauer, Amy,
Botstein, Leon,
Brodbeck, David,
Delpar, Helen,
Gibson, Christina Taylor,
Indych-López, Anna,
Kolb-Neuhaus, Roberto,
Krippner, James,
Miranda, Ricardo,
Orbón, Julián,
Pollack, Howard,
Saavedra, Leonora,
Saborit, Antonio,
Stallings, Stephanie N.,
Vilar-Payá, Luisa,
HerausgeberIn:
Saavedra, Leonora,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 38
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 8 halftones. 34 musical examples.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Permissions and Credits
  • Part 1. Chávez's Musical World
  • Chávez, Modern Music, and the New York Scene
  • The Pan/American Modernisms of Carlos Chávez and Henry Cowell
  • "The heartbeat of an intense life": Mexican Music and Carlos Chávez's Orquesta Sinfónica de México, 1928-1948
  • Carlos Chávez's Symphonies
  • Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas: Retracing an Ignored Dialogue
  • Aaron Copland, Carlos Chávez, and Silvestre Revueltas
  • Part II. Biographical and Analytical Perspectives
  • Chávez and the Autonomy of the Musical Work: The Piano Music
  • Carlos Chávez and the Myth of the Aztec Renaissance
  • Non-Repetition and Personal Style in the Inventions and Solis
  • Music and the Marketplace: On the Backstory of Carlos Chávez's Violin Concerto
  • Part III. Chávez's Greater World
  • Carlos Chávez and the Mexican "Vogue," 1925-1940
  • Carlos Chávez and Paul Strand
  • Masters Carlos Chávez and Miguel Covarrubias: A Puppet Show
  • The Literary Affinities and Poetic Friendships of Carlos Chávez
  • The Composer as Intellectual: Carlos Chávez and El Colegio Nacional
  • Portraits of Carlos Chávez: Testimonies of Collaboration
  • The Modernist Invention of Mexico: Carlos Chávez, the Mexican Revolution, and the Cultural Politics of Music
  • Index
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Backmatter

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