Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Intellectual Trends in Latin America
Author: The Pan American Book Shelf
Author: Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Some Educational and Anthropological Aspects of Latin America
Author: University of Texas. Institute of Latin-American StudiesPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Latin America, 1935-1949
Author: Dorothy Rita DillonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Latin American Research and Publications at the University of Texas at Austin, 1893-1969
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Institute of Latin American StudiesPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Political, Economic, and Social Problems of the Latin-American Nations of Southern South America
Author: University of Texas. Institute of Latin-American StudiesPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Catalog of the Latin American Library of the Tulane University Library, New Orleans
Author: Tulane University. Latin American LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Latin America
Author: Earl J. PariseauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Representing the Good Neighbor
Author: Carol A. HessPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199339899
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Robert M. Stevenson Award from the American Musicological Society In Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the twentieth century. Hers is the first study to probe Latin American art music in relation to Pan Americanism, or the idea that the American nations are bound by common aspirations. Under the Good Neighbor policy, crafted by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to cement hemispheric solidarity amid fears of European fascism, Latin American art music flourished and US critics applauded it as "universal." During the Cold War, however, this repertory assumed a very different status. While the United States supported Latin American military dictators to assuage fears that communism would overwhelm the hemisphere, musical works were increasingly objectified through essentializing adjectives such as "exotic," distinctive," or "national"--through the filter of difference. Hess explores this phenomenon by tracking the reception in the United States of the so-called Big Three: Carlos Chávez (Mexico), Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil), and Alberto Ginastera (Argentina). She also evaluates several important US composers and critics-Copland, Thomson, Rosenfeld, and others-in relation to Pan Americanism, and offers a new interpretation of a work about Latin America by US composer Fredric Rzewski, 36 Variations on "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" Whether discussing works performed in modern music concerts of the 1920s, at the 1939 World's Fair, the inauguration of the New York State Theater in 1966, or for the US Bicentennial, Hess illuminates ways in which North-South relations continue to inform our understanding of Latin American art music today. As the first book to examine in detail the critical reception of Latin American music in the United States, Representing the Good Neighbor promises to be a landmark in the field of American music studies, and will be essential reading for students and scholars of music in the US and Latin America during the twentieth-century. It will also appeal to historians studying US-Latin America relations, as well as general readers interested in the history of American music.