The Latin American Art Song : Sounds of the Imagined Nations.

Cover -- The Latin AmericanArt Song -- The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Prelude -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- The Sounds of the Imagined Nations -- Toward a Broader Definition of Nationalism -- Latin America: Multiple Identities -- Musical Nationalism in Latin America -- Latin American National Anthems: Toward a National Identity? -- Salon Music and the Influence of Italian Opera -- The Construction of the National Sound Begins: 1880-1920 -- Creolism -- Alberto Nepomuceno: Song in Portuguese -- Developing the National Style -- Alberto Williams and the Stylization of Folk Song -- The Double Verbal-Musical Nature of Song: Latin American Composers Setting Latin American Poems to Music -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- A Creative Storm -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- New Facets of the Concept of Nationalism in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Toward a Musical Transnationalism or the Dissolution of Borders -- Transnationalism: Multiple Places or the Non-Place -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Performance Practice of Latin American Art Song -- The Concept of Performance Practice -- Performance: A Space of Communication between Performers and Audience -- The Performance of Art Song: An Integrative Space -- Art Song and Its Performance -- Folk Song and Its Performance -- Popular Song and Its Performance -- Looking for Borders between Art Song and Folk Song: Following the Steps of Marcel Duchamp -- Pierre Bourdieu and the Concepts of Field and Habitus Applied to the Study of Song -- Meaning-Producing Agents in the World of Song -- Meaning-Producing Agents in the Subfield of Art Song -- Meaning-Producing Agents in the Subfield of Popular Song -- The Dual Status of Folk and Art Song: Marcel Duchamp and the "Ready-Mades".

Song: An Elastic, Flexible, and Integrating Space -- Proposals for a New Performance Practice of Latin American Art Song -- Notes -- Discography -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

This study of the Latin American art song and its development in the context of musical nationalism shows how the song is a mirror in which the processes of conformation to Latin American national identity are reflected.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.