Cuban Music Counterpoints: Vanguardia Musical in Global Networks

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Marysol Quevedo (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Miami)

Cuban Music Counterpoints

Vanguardia Musical in Global Networks

Marysol Quevedo (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Miami)

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Oxford University Press Inc
28 November 2023

Series: CURRENTS IN LATIN AMER AND IBERIAN MUSIC

Cuban Music Counterpoints maps the intellectual and artistic networks Cuban composers forged between 1940 and 1991 by exploring moments--concerts, festivals, recordings--that shed light on how they negotiated aesthetic and political agendas at local and international levels. Beginning with the modernist neoclassicism of the Grupo de Renovación Musical in the 1940s and its Pan Americanist backdrop, the book moves through the more turbulent 1950s, when a more politically engaged organization, the Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo, promoted contemporary socially engaged art of Cuba and the Americas. Their activities set the stage for the post-1959 Revolutionary period of aesthetic and political experimentation in the 1960s, subsequent institutionalization of the 1970s, and the pluralist global turn of the 1980s.

Through musical analysis, reception history, and historical contextualization, various case studies demonstrate that, due to music's polyvalent capacities, composers were able to experiment aesthetically with a much higher degree of freedom than their Cuban counterparts in other artistic fields--such as literature and visual arts--as well as their counterparts in other socialist countries, such as East Germany and the Soviet Union. Three key terms--innovation, revolution, and vanguardia--serve as anchors for exploring how composers tied the post-revolutionary present and future to the pre-revolutionary past. The aesthetic and political concepts of cubanía (Cubanness), national identity versus cosmopolitanism and universalism, modernism, Pan-Americanism, internationalism, socialism, and the revolution, guide our understandings of how Cuban composers created meaning and connected their work to vast local and global networks of art music production. This book sheds light not only on the classical music scene in Cuba, but also the international classical music network with which Cuban composers engaged during this time.

By: Marysol Quevedo (Assistant Professor of Musicology Assistant Professor of Musicology University of Miami)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 164mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780197552230
ISBN 10: 0197552234
Series: CURRENTS IN LATIN AMER AND IBERIAN MUSIC
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 28 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction 1. Neoclassicism Meets 1940s Pan Americanism: The Grupo de Renovación Musical as the First Cuban School of Composition 2. The Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo: Precursor to the Cuban Revolutionary Cultural Projects, 1950-1958 3. A Decade of Revolution and Experimentation in Music: Grafting Experimentalism onto the Cuban Revolutionary-Socialist Trunk 4. Institutionalization and Fissures in the Cuban Classical Music Landscape: the 1970s 5. ""Hacia nuevos horizontes"": Electroacoustic Music and Globalization in 1980s Cuba Epilogue: El 'período especial' que nunca termina/The Never-Ending Special Period Bibliography Index"

Marysol Quevedo is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Miami. Her research interests include 20th-century art music in Cuba, cultural diplomacy during the Cold War, art music networks throughout the 20th century, and music in film and visual media. She has published chapters in Experimentalisms in Practice and Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures and articles in the journals Cuban Studies and Boletín Música.