Mario Lavista
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-021272-8 (ISBN)
Composer, pianist, editor, writer, and pedagogue Mario Lavista (1943-2021) was a central figure of the cultural and artistic scene in Mexico and one of the leading Ibero-American composers of his generation. His music is often described as evocative and poetic, noted for his meticulous attention to timbre and motivic permutation, and his creative trajectory was characterized by its intersections with the other arts, particularly poetry and painting. Lavista was a relational composer; he did not write music as a private enterprise but for and alongside people with whom he established close relations.
Understanding analysis as an affective practice, author Ana R. Alonso-Minutti explores the intertextual connections between the multiple texts--musical or otherwise--that are present in Lavista's music. Alonso-Minutti argues that, through adopting an interdisciplinary and transhistorical approach to music composition, Lavista forged a cosmopolitan imaginary that challenged stereotypes of what Mexican music should sound like. This imaginary becomes a strategy of resistance against imperialist agendas placed upon postcolonial peripheries. Departing from traditional biographical and chronological frameworks that exalt masters and masterworks, the author offers a nuanced, personal narrative informed by conversations with composers, performers, artists, choreographers, poets, writers, and filmmakers.
Through an innovative mosaic of methodologies, from archival work, to musical and intertextual analysis, oral history, and (auto)ethnography, this book is the first in-depth study of Lavista's compositional career and offers a contextual panorama of the contemporary music scene in Mexico
Ana R. Alonso-Minutti is Associate Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico. Her scholarship focuses on experimental and avant-garde expressions and music traditions from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. Coeditor of Experimentalisms in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2018). She has published extensively on the music of Mario Lavista and serves as curatorial advisor of the Mediateca Lavista.
List of Figures
List of Musical Examples
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Mirrors of Sounds in Lavista's Music
Chapter 2: Embracing a Cosmopolitan Ideal
Chapter 3: Permuting Cage, Permuting Music
Chapter 4: Poetic Encounters and Instrumental Affairs
Chapter 5: Of Birds, Ballerinas, and Other Creatures
Chapter 6: Mirrors of a Superior Order: Tradition, Memory, and Spirituality
Chapter 7: The Composer as Intellectual: Mario Lavista and El Colegio Nacional
Chapter 8: Epilogue: Nihil novum sub sole: Perpetual Mirrors
Appendix - Chronological List of Works of Mario Lavista
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music |
| Zusatzinfo | 64 b/w figures, 56 musical examples |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 226 x 163 mm |
| Gewicht | 635 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-021272-1 / 0190212721 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-021272-8 / 9780190212728 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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