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Experimentalisms in Practice

Music Perspectives from Latin America

Alejandro L Madrid editor Ana R Alonso-Minutti editor Eduardo Herrera editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:5th Apr '18

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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.

as an intervention on a brittle canon, Experimentalisms In Practice marks a moment of raw possibility. * Sam Mackay, The Wire *

ISBN: 9780190842758

Dimensions: 152mm x 231mm x 25mm

Weight: 499g

368 pages