LLCU 248 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Celia Cruz, Cueca, Ranchera
30 Mar 2017
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Alejo carpentier, music as an explosion, hard to tell where it"s all from and where it"s going. The european music was imposed onto the preexisting musical styles. Colonial church music: hernando franco, colonial composer who served in mexico city. Brought popular songs and dances to the continent. Colonists developed musical practices that are now among latin. American traditions: cueca (chile national dance), jarabe (mexican national identity, hat dance), gaucho (southern cone music), mexican ranchero and corrido (native song used to tell historical or contemporary tales) Art music and cultural nationalism after independence: at the end of the 18th century church music and its structures began to fall. In the early 20th century the full effects of nationalism were felt. Response to avant-guarde style in europe: most success through international impact was seen in mexico, Cuba and brazil: manual ponce and carlos chavez (mexico, (cuba) alejandro garcia caturia, (brazil) heitor villa lobos, middle of 20th century there were new styles.
