Awards
- Winner of Winner of the International Casa de las Americas Musicology, 2018 (original Spanish edition).
- Winner of Winner, 2022 Robert M. Stevenson Award, American Musicological Society Winner of the International Casa de las Américas Musicology, 2018 (original Spanish edition).
- Winner of Winner, 2022 Robert M. Stevenson Award, American Musicological Society Winner of the International Casa de las Am^D'ericas Musicology, 2018 (original Spanish edition).
- Winner of Winner, 2022 Robert M. Stevenson Award, American Musicological Society Winner of the International Casa de las Am´ericas Musicology, 2018 (original Spanish edition).
Overview
A monumental study of musical practices in 18th century Santiago de Chile, and the only English-language monograph about Chilean colonial music, A Sweet Penance of Music offers a comprehensive view of musicians within the city and their links with other Latin American urban centers in the wider colonial system. Author Alejandro Vera, recent winner of the International Casa de las Américas Musicology Prize for the Spanish edition of his monograph, provides a fascinating account of the quotidian cultural and social significance of music in varying physical spheres - from cathedrals, convents, and monasteries, to private houses and public spaces. He brings to life a city long neglected in the shadow of other colonial centers of economic power, asserting the importance of duality in the period and its music - particularly centering one nun harpist's conception of music as ""sweet penance."" Drawing from historical documents and musical scores of the period, A Sweet Penance of Music breaks new ground, laying the foundation for a revisionist approach to the study of music in the colonial Americas.
Full Product Details
Author: Alejandro Vera (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Music Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) ,
Julianne Graper
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 25.90cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 18.30cm
Weight: 0.998kg
ISBN: 9780190940218
ISBN 10: 0190940212
Pages: 454
Publication Date: 13 November 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
The Sweet Penance of Music is a groundbreaking study of one of the most vibrant urban music cultures in colonial South America. Alejandro Vera offers a richly detailed account of musical life in Santiago de Chile, drawing from a wide array of archival sources to reveal and critically interpret valuable new data on the practice, function, and meaning of music in diverse parts of Santiaguino society. -- David R. M. Irving, ICREA & Instituci Mil i Fontanals-CSIC, Barcelona Both wide-ranging and precise, Alejandro Vera's new study carefully tracks the routes of musicians and music through colonial Santiago de Chile. His long work enables him to highlight the roles of convents and monasteries and the career trajectory of musicians, including Mapuche and Afro-Chileans. And his close attention to the musical repertory gives us a new understanding of how one colonial city's music actually sounded. -- Robert L. Kendrick, University of Chicago
Author Information
Alejandro Vera is Associate Professor at the Music Institute of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is the author of Santiago de Murcia: Cifras selectas de guitarra and Música vocal profana en el Madrid de Felipe IV, and has published in journals including Acta musicologica, Early Music, and Latin American Music Review.
