Ibn Baṭṭūṭa

Music in the latin America and the Carabbean. An encyclopedic history. Volume 1 : Performing beliefs : Indigenous peoples of South America, Central America and Mexico.

Ouvrage

2004

Amérique

fr Anglais

fr The music of the people of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centred approach, "Music in Latin America and the Caribbean" gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indegenous people, creoles, African descendantd, Iberian colonizersn and other immigrants groups that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs belief, and challenges received aesthetics. This work, more than two decades in the making, was conceived as part of "The Universe of Music : A History" project,, initiated by and developed in coorporation with the International Music Council, with the goals of empowering Latin American and Caribbeans to shape their own musical history and emphasizing the role that music plays in human life. The four volumes that constitute this work are structured as parts of a single conception and gather 150 contributions by more than 100 distinguished scholars representing 36 countries.
Volume 1, "Performing Beliefs : Indigenous People of South America, Central America, and Mexico", focuses on the inextricable relationships between worldview and musical experience in the current practices of indigenous groups. Worldviews are built into, among other things, how music is organized and performed, how musical instruments are constructed and when they are played, choregraphic formations, the structure of songs, the assignment of gender to instruments, and ritual patters. Two CDs with 44 recorded examples illustrate the contributions to this rich volume.

University of Texas Press, Austin

fr 22x28,5 cm

416

fr 0-292-70298-1

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fr Dessin

fr Partition musicale

fr Photo Noir et Blanc

fr CD