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Author Finley, Sarah

Title Amplifications of Black Sound from Colonial Mexico : Vocality and Beyond
Edition 1st ed
Published La Vergne : Vanderbilt University Press, 2024
©2024

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages)
Series Critical Mexican Studies
Critical Mexican studies.
Contents Black male sopranos in new Spanish cathedrals -- Musical and lyrical rememberings of Black male sopranos -- Harmonizing Blackness in urban political ceremonies -- Harmonizing Blackness in popular religious settings -- Harmonizing Blackness in villancicos -- Black women's performance in Sor Juana's villancicos
Summary "The first extensive study of Afro-descendant sonorities in New Spain or elsewhere in colonial Latin America"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Subject African diaspora -- History
Sound -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
Music and race -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
Villancicos (Music) -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Castrati -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
Sopranos (Singers) -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
Musicians, Black -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
Music -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- History -- 17th century
Mexico -- Social life and customs -- 17th century
Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2024013180
ISBN 9780826506863
0826506860
9780826506870
0826506879