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Experimentalisms in Practice explores the multiple sites in which experimentalism emerges and becomes meaningful beyond Eurocentric interpretative frameworks. Challenging the notion of experimentalism as defined in conventional narratives, contributors take a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin@ and Latin American music traditions conceived or perceived as experimental. The conversation takes as starting point the 1960s, a decade that marks a crucial political and epistemological moment for Latin America; militant and committed aesthetic practices resonated with this moment, resulting in a multiplicity of artistic and musical experimental expressions.
Experimentalisms in Practice responds to recent efforts to reframe and reconceptualize the study of experimental music in terms of epistemological perspective and geographic scope, while also engaging traditional scholarship. This book contributes to the current conversations about music experimentalism while providing new points of entry to further reevaluate the field.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Music Examples
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1. The Practices of Experimentalism in Latin@ and Latin American Music: An Introduction
by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera, and Alejandro L. Madrid
I. Centers and Institutions
Chapter 2. "That's Not Something to Show in a Concert": Experimentation and Legitimacy at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales
by Eduardo Herrera
Chapter 3. Experimental Alternatives: Institutionalism, Avant-gardism, and Popular Music at the Margins of the Cuban Revolution
by Susan Thomas
II. Beyond the Limits of Hybridity
Chapter 4. "I Go against the Grain of Your Memory": Iconoclastic Experiments with Traditional Sounds in Northeast Brazil
by Dan Sharp
Chapter 5. Peruvian Cumbia at the Theoretical Limits of Techno-Utopian Hybridity
by Joshua Tucker
Chapter 6. Experimentalism as Estrangement: Café Tacvba's Revés/Yosoy
by Alejandro L. Madrid and Pepe Rojo
III. Anti-Colonial Practices
Chapter 7. "Gatas y Vatas": Female Empowerment and Community-Oriented Experimentalism
by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti
Chapter 8. Noise, Sonic Experimentation, and Interior Coloniality in Costa Rica
by Susan Campos Fonseca
IV. Performance, Movements, and Scenes
Chapter 9. "We Began from Silence": Toward a Genealogy of Free Improvisation in Mexico City: Atrás del Cosmos at Teatro El Galeón, 1975-1977
by Tamar Barzel
Chapter 10. Experimentation and Improvisation in Bogotá at the End of the Twentieth Century
by Rodolfo Acosta
Chapter 11. Experimental Music and the Avant-garde in Post-1959 Cuba: Revolutionary Music for the Revolution
by Marysol Quevedo
Chapter 12. Performance, Resistance, and the Sounding of Public Space: Movimiento Música Más in Buenos Aires, 1969-73
by Andrew Raffo Dewar
Chapter 13. Afterword: Locating Hemispheric Experimentalisms
by Benjamin Piekut
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