Music and Identity in Venezuela [Hardcover]

1. Music and Identity in Venezuela: An Introduction 2. Sim?n D?az and the Tonada llanera: The Forging of a Referent for Modern Venezuelan Identity 3. Relocating the Nativity in Song and Celebration 4. Corpus Christi Reinterpreted: Power Dynamics and African Diaspora in Venezuelas Dancing Devils 5. To the Beat of African Drums: Afro-Venezuelan Music and Identity through Betsayda Machado and La Parranda El Clavo 6. Indigenous Identitary Resistance in 20th- and 21st-Century Venezuela: Pum? and Wayuu Musical Cultures 7. Patriotic Glosses : Generic Mutations, Appropriation, and Identity in the Venezuelan National Anthem 8. Intellectual Thought Behind Venezuelan Musical Nationalism: Ideas, Values, Beliefs 9. A Ten-Year Break? On Nationalist Music Historiography in Venezuela 10. Teresa Carre?os Repatriation and Revival: Nationalism, Feminism, and the Historical Imagination 11. Unknown Pioneers: Approaches to Atonality and Serialism in Venezuelan Composition, 19501967

This book presents critical discussions of some of these traditions in connection with the issue of identity. The discussions capture country and city life, illustrate foundational myths, bring secular traditions closer to Christianity, explore surviving cultural strategies, etc.

Adriana Ponce is an associate professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, USA. She holds a PhD in musicology from Brandeis University, USA. Her research interests revolve around questions of form in 19th-century art music and Venezuelan traditional musics. She has presented at numerous conferences of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory (USA); the Society of Music Analysis and the Royal Musical Association (UK); the Fryderyk Chopin Institute (Poland); and similar societies in Belgium and the Netherlands. She was also invited to deliver a guest lecture in the Carrigan Music Theory Lecture Series at the University of Michlãä