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Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

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ISBN10: 0822341360
ISBN13: 9780822341369
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 24 2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology's cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the cathedral, Cuzco's musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions such as parish churches and monasteries employed indigenous professional musicians, rivaling Cuzco Cathedral in the scale and frequency of the musical performances they staged.

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