Playing in the cathedral
music, race, and status in eighteenth-century New Spain
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Author
Publication
2016 - Oxford University Press, New York, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
57,000 words, Guess
Page Count
228 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780190236816
- ISBN-139780190612672
- ISBN-100190236817
- ISBN-100190612673
- Library of Congress Control Number2015050546
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number933580544
- Better World Books9780190236816
- Better World Books9780190612672
- Open LibraryOL30402740M
Classifications
- DDC780.89/00972
- LCCML3917.M4 R36 2016
- LCCML3917.M4R36 2016
Description
This work explores how cathedral musicians in eighteenth-century Mexico City relied on music and on their institutional affiliation to define their social place. In the tensions that brewed within New Spain's racial casta (or caste) system, people of mixed race increasingly competed for Spanish benefits and prerogatives.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Currents in Latin American and Iberian music
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