Inca Music Reimagined by Vera Wolkowicz
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.
This is a groundbreaking book about music nationalism and the utopia of the Inca imaginary in Latin AmericaBased on a comprehensive field and archival research in countries such as Peru, Ecuador and Argentina, the author explores the processes of construction of national identities through the creation of a nationalist art music during the first three decades of the twentieth century. This brilliantly written and highly organized book will capture the attention not only of musicologists, but also of anyone interested in the processes of nation building in Latin America and elsewhere. * Raúl R. Romero, author of Debating the Past: Music, Memory and Identity in the Andes *
Wolkowicz's book is remarkable, insightful, and original in its approach to examining the transnational circulation of discourses on Inca music. The understanding of national histories and the depth and breadth of the investigation are impressive! * Ketty Wong, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Kansas *
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. * Jessica Sequeira, Modern Language Review *
Wolkowicz's book is remarkable, insightful, and original in its approach to examining the transnational circulation of discourses on Inca music. The understanding of national histories and the depth and breadth of the investigation are impressive! * Ketty Wong, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Kansas *
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. * Jessica Sequeira, Modern Language Review *
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780197548943 |
| ISBN 10 | 0197548946 |
| Title | Inca Music Reimagined |
| Author | Vera Wolkowicz École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales ) |
| Series | Currents In Latin American And Iberian Music |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2022-07-14 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner, Robert M. Stevenson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Iberian and Latin American Music, American Musicological Society. |
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