Music 224 Latin American musical modernism

 

Required Reading and listening.

 

Burns, Chelsea. ““Musique Cannibale”: The Evolving Sound of Indigeneity in Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Tres Poêmas Indigenas,” Music Theory Spectrum 43/1 (2021): 91–113.

 

Kronenberg, Clive, “Guitar Composer Leo Brouwer: The Concept of a ‘Universal Language.” Tempo, 62/245 (2008): 30–46.

 

Madrid, Alejandro L. “Renovation, Rupture, and Restoration: The Modernist Musical Experience in Latin America.” In The Modernist World, edited by Stephen Ross and Allana C. Lindgren (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), 409–16.

 

Villa-Lobos, Heitor. Tros Poemas Indigenas no. 2, "Teiru."

 

Latin American Playlist

 

Analysis No. 1

Leo Brouwer, "El Harpa del Guerrero" El Decameron Negroas pdf and Word doc, score, due January 30

 

Additional Readings

General

 

Béhague, Gerard. “Indianism in Latin American Art-Music Composition of the 1920s to 1940s: Case Studies From Mexico, Peru, and Brazil.” Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 27/1 (2006): 28–37.

 

Da Silva, Zenia Sacks, ed. The Hispanic Connection: Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004).

 

Olsen, Dale, and Sheehy Daniel, eds. The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music. Oxon: Routledge, 2007.

 

Palomino, Pablo. The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).

 

Jackson, Richard. “The Afrocriollo Movement Revisited.” Afro-Hispanic Review 3/1 (1984): 5–9.

 

Madrid, Alejandro, L, R Alonso-Minutti Ana, and Herrera Eduardo, eds. Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives From Latin America. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.)

 

Argentina

 

Schwartz-Kates, Deborah. Alberto Ginastera: A Research and Information Guide. (Oxon: Routledge, 2011).

 

Brasil

 

Ferreira, Marcelo. “Villa-Lobos’ Canções Típicas Brasileiras and the Creation of the Brazilian Nationalist Style,” diss., Indiana University, 2017.

 

Cuba

 

Andrade, Oswald de. “Cannibalist Manifesto’.” Latin American Literary Review 19/38 (1991): 38–47.

 

Bary, Leslie. “Oswald De Andrade’s “Cannibalist Manifesto”.” Latin American Literary Review 19/38 (1991): 35–37.

 

Castilla Peñaranda, Carlos Isaac.“Leo Brouwer’s Estudios Sencillos for Guitar: Afro-Cuban Elements and Pedagogical Devices,” diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 2009.

 

Century, Paul. “Leo Brouwer: A Portrait of the Artist in Socialist Cuba.” Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 8/2 (1987): 151–71.

 

Huston, John Bryan. “The Afro-Cuban and the Avant-Garde: Unification of Style and Gesture in the Guitar Music of Leo Brouwer,” diss., University of Georgia, 2006.

 

Kronenberg, Clive. “Illustrations of Cultural Universalism in Cuba With Special Reference to the Contributions of Haydée Santamaría and Leo Brouwer : Research Article.” Latin American Report 21/2 (2005):

 

Mexico

 

Garland, Peter. In Search of Silvestre Revueltas: Essays 1978-1990. Santa Fe, NM: Soundings Press, 1991.

 

Hoag, Charles K. “‘Sensemayá': A Chant for Killing a Snake.” Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 8/2 (1987): 172–84.

 

Madrid, Alejandro L. Sounds of the Modern Nation: Music Culture and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico.(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008).

 

Saavedra, Leonora, ed. Carlos Chávez and His World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

 

Saavedra, Leonora. “Carlos Chávez’s Polysemic Style: Constructing the National, Seeking the Cosmopolitan.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 68/1 (2015): 99–150.

 

Zohn-Muldoon, Ricardo. “The Song of the Snake: Silvestre Revueltas’ Sensemayá'.” Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana 19/2 (1998): 133–59.