Imposing Harmon: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco - Brossura

Baker, Geoffrey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0822341603 ISBN 13: 9780822341604

Casa editrice: Duke Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the cathedral, Cuzco’s musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions such as parish churches and monasteries employed indigenous professional musicians, rivaling Cuzco Cathedral in the scale and frequency of the musical performances they staged.

Building on recent scholarship by social historians and urban musicologists and drawing on extensive archival research, Baker highlights European music as a significant vehicle for reproducing and contesting power relations in Cuzco. He examines how Andean communities embraced European music, creating an extraordinary cultural florescence, at the same time that Spanish missionaries used the music as a mechanism of colonialization and control. Uncovering a musical life of considerable and unexpected richness throughout the diocese of Cuzco, Baker describes a musical culture sustained by both Hispanic institutional patrons and the upper strata of indigenous society. Mastery of European music enabled elite Andeans to consolidate their position within the colonial social hierarchy. Indigenous professional musicians distinguished themselves by fulfilling important functions in colonial society, acting as educators, religious leaders, and mediators between the Catholic Church and indigenous communities.

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L'autore:

Geoffrey Baker is a Lecturer in the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Book by Baker Geoffrey

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Duke Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0822341603
• ISBN 13: 9780822341604
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 308