Alonso-Minutti, Ana R. - Experimentalisms in Practice

Taking a broad approach to a wide variety of Latin@ and Latin American music traditions, Experimentalisms in Practice challenges traditional notions of what has been considered experimental, and provides new points of entry to reevaluate modern and avant-garde music studies.

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CONTENTS

List of Figures
List of Music Examples
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
About the Companion Website
Chapter 1. The Practices of Experimentalism in Latin@
and Latin American Music: An Introduction
by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera, and
Alejandro L. Madrid
I. Centers and Institutions
Chapter 2. That's Not Something to Show in a Concert: Experimentation and Legitimacy at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales
by Eduardo Herrera
Chapter 3. Experimental Alternatives: Institutionalism, Avant-gardism, and Popular Music at the Margins of the Cuban Revolution
by Susan Thomas
II. Beyond the Limits of Hybridity
Chapter 4. I Go against the Grain of Your Memory: Iconoclastic Experiments with Traditional Sounds in Northeast Brazil
by Dan Sharp
Chapter 5. Peruvian Cumbia at the Theoretical Limits of Techno-Utopian Hybridity
by Joshua Tucker
Chapter 6. Experimentalism as Estrangement: Cafe Tacvba's Reves/Yosoy
by Alejandro L. Madrid and Pepe Rojo
III. Anti-Colonial Practices
Chapter 7. Gatas y Vatas: Female Empowerment and Community-Oriented Experimentalism
by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti
Chapter 8. Noise, Sonic Experimentation, and Interior Coloniality in Costa Rica
by Susan Campos Fonseca
IV. Performance, Movements, and Scenes
Chapter 9. We Began from Silence: Toward a Genealogy of Free Improvisation in Mexico City: Atras del Cosmos at Teatro El Galeon, 1975-1977
by Tamar Barzel
Chapter 10. Experimentation and Improvisation in Bogota at the End of the Twentieth Century
by Rodolfo Acosta
Chapter 11. Experimental Music and the Avant-garde in Post-1959 Cuba: Revolutionary Music for the Revolution
by Marysol Quevedo
Chapter 12. Performance, Resistance, and the Sounding of Public Space: Movimiento Musica Mas in Buenos Aires, 1969-73
by Andrew Raffo Dewar
Chapter 13. Afterword: Locating Hemispheric Experimentalisms
by Benjamin Piekut
Bibliography