ISBN:
9780822341369
,
9780822341604
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 308 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
780.985/37
Keywords:
Geschichte 1500-1900
;
Music / Peru / Cuzco / History and criticism
;
Music / Social aspects / Peru / Cuzco
;
Cuzco (Peru) / Social life and customs
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Gesellschaft
;
Musik
;
Cuzco (Peru) Social life and customs
;
Music Social aspects
;
Music History and criticism
;
Musik
;
Musikleben
;
Gesellschaft
;
Peru
;
Cuzco
;
Cuzco
;
Musikleben
;
Peru
;
Geschichte 1500-1900
;
Cuzco
;
Musik
;
Gesellschaft
;
Peru
;
Geschichte 1500-1900
Abstract:
Imposing Harmonyis 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The urban soundscape -- The Cathedral and the Seminary of San Antonio Abad -- Convents and monasteries -- The urban parishes -- The rural doctrinas de Indios
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