The Latin American Art Song

Foreword by Walter Clark

Prelude

Introduction

Chapter 1: The sounds of the imagined nations

Towards a broader definition of nationalism

Latin America: multiple identities

Musical nationalism in Latin America

Latin American National Anthems: Towards a national identity?

Salon music and the influence of Italian opera

The construction of the national sound begins

Creolism

Alberto Nepomuceno: Song in Portuguese

Developing the National Style

Alberto Williams and the stylization of folk song

The double verbal-musical nature of song: Latin American composers setting Latin American poems to music

Chapter 2: A creative storm

Art song as a medium of expression of modernist nationalism

Argentina

Brazil

Cuba

Perú

Venezuela

Chapter 3: New facets of the concept of nationalism in the 20th century

Art song since 1940

Alberto Ginastera: from a national style to a national atmosphere

Carlos Guastavino: the voice of tradition

Jaime León: a Pan-American voice

The Nueva Canción Latinoamericana movement and its relation to art song

Chapter 4: Towards a musical transnationalism or the dissolution of borders.

Transnationalism: multiple places or the non-place

A transnational composer: Moisès Bertran (Catalunya, 1967)

Transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, multi-locality, neo-nationalism?

Chapter 5: Performance practice of Latin American Art Song

The concept of performance practice

Performance: a space of communication between performers and audience

The performance of art song: an integrative space

Art song and its performance

Folk song and its performance

Popular song and its performance

Looking for the borders between Art song and Folk song: Following the steps of Marcel Duchamp

Pierre Bourdieu and the concepts of field and habitus applied to the study of song

Meaning-producing agents in the world of song

Meaning-producing agents in the sub-field of art song

Performance context of art song

Meaning-producing agents in the sub-field of folk song

Performance context of folk song

Meaning-producing agents in the sub-field of popular song

Performance context of popular song

The dual status of folk and art song: Marcel Duchamp and the "ready-mades"

Song: an elastic, flexible and integrating space

Proposals for a new performance practice of Latin American art song

Discography

Bibliography