{"product_id":"cuban-music-counterpoints-vanguardia-musical-in-global-networks-hardcover","title":"Cuban Music Counterpoints: Vanguardia Musical in Global Networks - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarysol Quevedo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCuban Music Counterpoints\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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 \u003cem\u003evanguardia\u003c\/em\u003e--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 \u003cem\u003ecubanía\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarysol Quevedo \u003c\/strong\u003eis 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 \u003cem\u003eExperimentalisms in Practice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eExperiencing Music and Visual Cultures\u003c\/em\u003e and articles in the journals \u003cem\u003eCuban Studies\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBoletín Música.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.05 x 9.34 x 6.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42726973571135,"sku":"9780197552230","price":235.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3fa0d6c3a7fc2ac76c6bfe704257f46f.webp?v=1765113057","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/cuban-music-counterpoints-vanguardia-musical-in-global-networks-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}