MEXICAN MUSIC AND REGIONAL STUDIES: History, traditions and recent trends
Synopsis
This book aims to be a counterweight to academic centralism and to encourage the dissemination of research done by regional academics from our own regions, to disseminate local music through chapters written by social scientists from all over the country without excluding researchers from the capital. It is no longer a matter of academics spending short periods of time in the “field” and then returning to their “ivory tower”. This boom in multidisciplinary musical research in the regions also strengthens the perception that the results of such studies can be considered in their own right as part of the generation of new scientific knowledge.
As the reader will be able to perceive, we have included the most varied research topics ranging from musical archives, sacred music, post-independence music, traditional music, to contemporary urban genres: rock, narcocorridos, rap. Some of the essays were originally presented as papers at the colloquium “La investigación musical en las regiones de México”, which is organized annually in Zacatecas, and others were made by personal invitation. These are multidisciplinary works that do not require the reader to have theoretical knowledge of the science and art of sound, since our main focus is the social and cultural history of music.
Finally, a particularity of this book is to offer opportunities for young researchers to publish alongside scholars who already have a consolidated trajectory, in addition to the fact that some research is in its initial stages and others are more advanced. We hope that the ideas, proposals and findings presented here will serve to enrich the discussion on Mexican music and its transcendent social role.
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Preface
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1835: A Te Deum in “only two and a half days”.
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In the footsteps of Fray Francisco Luján.Franciscan composer of the Convent of Guadalupe in Zacatecas.
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“From the iron horse to the waterwheel horse": string musicians in Zacatecan cantinas and bars
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Rafael Adame Gómez: new contributions on his life and work
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The regulations of popular festivals in nineteenth-century Mexico.A case study: León, Guanajuato
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“El palomo” and other national airs
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Canaries: songbirds and migrants.A baroque musical genre in the current indigenous life of western Mexico.
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Songs of immortality: exploring the role of death in Mexican musics
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Sones at the service of power: “new national guard”, the experience of a government mariachi band
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Countercultural music festivals and authoritarianism in the regions of Mexico, 1971-1976.
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Mexican musical presence at Casa de las Américas (1959-1982).Sounds and reflections as archetypes of a Latin American heritage.
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The ballads of drug trafficking: music, text and context
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Rap battles in northern Mexico.Some points for your understanding
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