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Sonorous Worlds - Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (Paperback)
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Sonorous Worlds - Musical Enchantment in Venezuela (Paperback)
Series: Music and Social Justice
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El Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in
Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by economist and musician JosÉ Antonio
Abreu, the institution has weathered seven jolting changes in
government. Hugo ChÁvez and, after his death, president NicolÁs
Maduro enthusiastically included the institution into the political
agenda of the socialist project and captured the affective power of
music for their own aims. Fueled by the oil boom in the 2000s, El
Sistema grew over the years to encompass 1,210 orchestras for
children and young people in Venezuela, reached almost 1 million
people out of the 30 million in the country, and served as a model
in more than 35 countries around the world. Sonorous Worlds is an
ethnography of the young Venezuelan musicians who participate in El
Sistema, many of whom live in urban barrios and face everyday gang
violence, state repression, social exclusion, and forced migration
in response to sociopolitical crisis. This book looks at how these
young people engage with what the author calls “enchantment,”
that is, how through musical practices they create worlds that
escape, rupture, and critique dominant structures of power.
Stainova’s focus on artistic practice and enchantment allows her
to theorize the successes and failures of political projects
through the lens of everyday transformations in people’s lives.
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