Title Playing in the cathedral : music, race, and status in New Spain / Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages) Series Currents in Latin American and Iberian music Currents in Latin American & Iberian music. Contents Cover; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Studying Music Culture in New Spain; Introduction; Rupture and Continuity; New Approaches to Colonial Music Culture; 2. Music, Race, and Social Status; Introduction; Music and Social Life; Race and Calidad; Shifting Trends in Music and the Benefits of Corporate Membership; 3. Music, Letters, and the Clerical Path; Introduction; Limpieza de Sangre as Social Currency; Nobility: The Desired Calidad; Music: Strategy for an Ecclesiastical Career; The Choir Chaplains 4. Ignacio Jerusalem and Changes in Music ThoughtIntroduction; Politics in Music Thought; Profiling a Chapelmaster; Música Práctica versus Música Especulativa; The Limits of Música Práctica: Caveats for a Parvenu; 5. Decency in the Music Chapel; Introduction; Part One-​Antecedents; Part Two-​Transforming the Music Chapel; Epilogue: Further Considerations on Race and Music Culture; Appendix; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary In eighteenth-century Mexico City, cathedral musicians made explicit and considered use of music and institutional affiliation in order to construct their Spanish identity. Ramos-Kittrell argues that music, as a performative and theoretical activity, was a highly dynamic factor in the cultural and religious life of New Spain, and an active agent in the changing discourses of social status and ""Spanishness"" in colonial America Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Music -- 18th century -- Social aspects -- Mexico Church musicians -- Mexico -- 18th century Music and race -- Mexico -- History -- 18th century MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical. MUSIC -- Reference. Church musicians Music and race Music -- Social aspects Mexico Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190236830 0190236833 0190236817 9780190236816

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