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
General
Imprint: |
OUP India
|
Country of origin: |
India |
Series: |
Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Ana R. Alonso-Minutti
|
Pages: |
400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-021272-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-19-021272-1 |
Barcode: |
9780190212728 |
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