Playing in the cathedral : music, race, and status in New Spain /

Playing in the cathedral : music, race, and status in New Spain / Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell.

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...

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Main Author: Ramos-Kittrell, Jesús A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Series:Currents in Latin American & Iberian music.
Subjects:
Music > Mexico > 18th century > Social aspects.
Church musicians > Mexico > 18th century.
Music and race > Mexico > History > 18th century.

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Call Number: ML3917.M4 R36 2016
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