2006
DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2006-047
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The Sounds of the Nation: Visions of Modernity and Tradition in Mexico’s First National Congress of Music

Abstract: For decades, political, social, and (lately) cultural historians have successfully challenged the orthodox history of the Mexican Revolution: a teleology of progress achieved through the beneficence of the postrevolutionary state. The official history of nationalist aesthetics and national identity -with its essentialist claims to mexicanidad or lo mexicano, its iconization of (male) cultural caudillos, and its close association of cultural nationalism with the state -has received less attention. The critical … Show more

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“…Throughout history, music and other arts have been used to build responsible, cohesive and robust societies in both the Western and non-Western worlds (see Buchori 2010;Denisoff 1969;Kong 1995;Madrid 2006;Meizei 2006;Ozgur 2006). From Greek antiquity to the modern day, music has been seen as a potential source of power, with thinkers from Plato to Theodor W. Adorno recognising how it affects mood, stimulates the senses and generates social events (DeNora 2000).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Throughout history, music and other arts have been used to build responsible, cohesive and robust societies in both the Western and non-Western worlds (see Buchori 2010;Denisoff 1969;Kong 1995;Madrid 2006;Meizei 2006;Ozgur 2006). From Greek antiquity to the modern day, music has been seen as a potential source of power, with thinkers from Plato to Theodor W. Adorno recognising how it affects mood, stimulates the senses and generates social events (DeNora 2000).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Estanislao Mejía (1882-1967) y Jesús C. Romero (1893Romero ( -1958. Formaron el Grupo de los 9 y usaron las páginas de El Universal para atacar la falta de rigor científico y la inviabilidad del microtonalismo (Madrid, 2006). Como consecuencia, Carrillo decidió abandonar el Conservatorio Nacional y la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional para volver a difundir su música en Nueva York, ciudad que en la década de 1920 se estaba convirtiendo en un centro internacional para la música experimental.…”
Section: Pautas Para La Interpretaciónunclassified
“…Inevitablemente afectados por estas convulsiones, los músicos mexicanos, ante la crisis y el colapso de las instituciones musicales prerrevolucionarias, sintieron la necesidad de revitalizar la escena musical y redefinir su rol. En junio de 1926, un pequeño comité formado por compositores de ideología heterogénea publicó una convocatoria para del Primer Congreso Nacional de Música, que se celebró en Ciudad de México en septiembre de 1926 (Madrid, 2006). Asistieron músicos de diversos campos -compositores, profesores, empresarios, musicólogos-y tendencias estéticas, para discutir el futuro de la música en la sociedad postrevolucionaria.…”
Section: Carlos Chávez: Nacionalismo Y Universalismounclassified
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