Inca Music Reimagined - Indigenist Discourses in Latin American Art Music, 1910-1930

In Inca Music Reimagined, author Vera Wolkowicz argues that Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Argentine composers in the early twentieth century consciously featured indigenous signifiers in their operas in order to produce a self-consciously Latin American art.

List of contents

• List of Figures


• List of Musical Examples


• Acknowledgments


• Introduction - Indigenous musical heritage and Latin American art music


• 1. Shaping a continental identity: race, nations, civilizations, utopia, and the arts


• 2. "We are the Incas" Discussing Indigenism in national musical discourse in Peru


• 3. To be Inca or not to be Inca? Building Ecuador's musical past


• 4. Argentina and the appropriation of the Inca past?


• 5. The Incas go to the opera?


• Epilogue - Art music and the Incas: past and present


• Bibliography


• List of journals and newspapers consulted


• Index

About the author

Vera Wolkowicz holds a PhD in Music from the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on Latin American musical nationalisms during the first decades of the twentieth century, and Italian opera in mid-nineteenth-century Buenos Aires. She has been recently awarded an H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship at the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of Música de América. Estudio preliminar y edición crítica (2012) and has co-edited the unpublished scores of Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000).

Summary

In Inca Music Reimagined, author Vera Wolkowicz argues that Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Argentine composers in the early twentieth century consciously featured indigenous signifiers in their operas in order to produce a self-consciously Latin American art.

Additional text

Inca Music Reimagined explores how Latin American musicians brought ideas of Incan music into their twentieth-century modernist compositions...the project is an engaging one, and a much-needed contribution to the field of historical music studies. The book makes one think about Latin America as an imaginary, and the ways in which musical experimentation might draw on imaginaries in new, inventive ways.

Product details

• Authors: Wolkowicz , Vera Wolkowicz, Vera (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow Wolkowicz
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780197548943
• ISBN: 978-0-19-754894-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music; CURRENTS IN LATIN AMER AND IBERIAN MUSIC
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Latin America, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Latin, c 1910 to c 1919, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials