Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of FiguresList of Music ExamplesList of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsAbout the Companion WebsiteChapter 1. The Practices of Experimentalism in Latin@ and Latin American Music: An Introductionby Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera, and Alejandro L. MadridI. Centers and InstitutionsChapter 2. "That's Not Something to Show in a Concert": Experimentation and Legitimacy at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicalesby Eduardo HerreraChapter 3. Experimental Alternatives: Institutionalism, Avant-gardism, and Popular Music at the Margins of the Cuban Revolutionby Susan ThomasII. Beyond the Limits of HybridityChapter 4. "I Go against the Grain of Your Memory": Iconoclastic Experiments with Traditional Sounds in Northeast Brazilby Dan SharpChapter 5. Peruvian Cumbia at the Theoretical Limits of Techno-Utopian Hybridityby Joshua TuckerChapter 6. Experimentalism as Estrangement: Café Tacvba's Revés/Yosoyby Alejandro L. Madrid and Pepe RojoIII. Anti-Colonial PracticesChapter 7. "Gatas y Vatas": Female Empowerment and Community-Oriented Experimentalismby Ana R. Alonso-MinuttiChapter 8. Noise, Sonic Experimentation, and Interior Coloniality in Costa Ricaby Susan Campos FonsecaIV. Performance, Movements, and ScenesChapter 9. "We Began from Silence": Toward a Genealogy of Free Improvisation in Mexico City: Atrás del Cosmos at Teatro El Galeón, 1975-1977by Tamar BarzelChapter 10. Experimentation and Improvisation in Bogotá at the End of the Twentieth Centuryby Rodolfo AcostaChapter 11. Experimental Music and the Avant-garde in Post-1959 Cuba: Revolutionary Music for the Revolutionby Marysol QuevedoChapter 12. Performance, Resistance, and the Sounding of Public Space: Movimiento Música Más in Buenos Aires, 1969-73by Andrew Raffo DewarChapter 13. Afterword: Locating Hemispheric Experimentalismsby Benjamin PiekutBibliography
