In Search of Julin Carrillo and Sonido 13
European avant-garde circles in the 1960s and 1970s, his music and legacy have remained largely overlooked by music scholars, critics, and performers. Confronting this paucity of scholarship on Carrillo and his music, Alejandro L. Madrid goes above and beyond "filling in" the historical record. Combining archival and ethnographic research with musical analysis and cultural theory, Madrid argues that Carrillo and Sonido 13 are best understood as a
cultural complex: a network of moments, spaces, and articulations in which Carrillo and his music continuously re-acquire significance and meaning. Thus, Madrid explores Carrillo's music and ideas not only in relation to the historical moments of their inception, but also in relation to the various
cultural projects that kept them alive and re-signified them through the beginning of the twenty-first century. Eschewing traditionally linear historical frameworks, In Search of Julin Carrillo and Sonido 13 employs an innovative transhistorical narrative in which past, present, and future are
explored dialogically in order to understand the politics of performance and self-representation behind Carrillo and Sonido 13. In Search of Julin Carrillo and Sonido 13 transforms the traditional genre of the composer study, treating it not as a celebration of "masters" and "masterworks," but as a pointed postcolonial intervention that offers invaluable insight into the politics of cultural exchange, experimentalism,
marginality, and cultural capital in twentieth century Mexico.
| Publisher Name | Oxford University Press USA |
|---|---|
| Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
| Format | Audio |
| Bisac Subject Major | HIS |
| Language | NG |
| Isbn 10 | 019021578X |
| Isbn 13 | 9780190215781 |
| Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
| Dimensions | 00.93" H x 00.06" L x 10.00" W |
| Page Count | 328 |
Alejandro L. Madrid is a music scholar and cultural theorist whose research focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, and globalization in music and expressive culture from Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the circum-Caribbean. His books have received the AMS's Robert M. Stevenson and
Ruth A. Solie awards, the Bla Bartk award from the ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards, IASPM's Woody Guthrie Book Award, and the Casa de las Amricas Musicology Prize. He is associate professor of musicology at Cornell University.
