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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838325803321

Autore

Hess Carol A

Titolo

Aaron Copland in Latin America : Music and Cultural Politics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Champaign : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

0-252-05400-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 pages)

Collana

Music in American Life Series

Classificazione

MUS006000BIO004000

Disciplina

780.92

Soggetti

Music and diplomacy - Latin America - History - 20th century

Cultural diplomacy - Latin America - History - 20th century

Pan-Americanism - History - 20th century

MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music

History

Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I : A citizen diplomat prepares. Introduction ; Copland and the beginnings of U.S. cultural diplomacy ; Copland as good neighbor : A musical diplomat and the OIAA -- Part II : Copland, Latin America, and World War II. Diplomat "in the field" ; Copland in Argentina ; Copland in Brazil ; Copland in Chile ; "The fiery trial through which we pass" : The Americas at war -- Part III : Copland, Latin America, and the Postwar. Copland, Latin America, and the early Cold War ; Shifting ground : Copland, Latin America, and the crisis of modernism ; A "living refutation to Communist-inspired lies" : Copland in Latin America in the sixties ; Latin American classical music and memory.

Sommario/riassunto

"Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interviews with eyewitnesses, previously untapped Latin American press accounts, and Copland's diaries inform Carol A. Hess's in-depth examination of the composer's approach to cultural diplomacy. As Hess shows, Copland's tours facilitated an exchange of



music and ideas with Latin American composers while capturing the tenor of United States diplomatic efforts at various points in history. In Latin America, Copland's introduced works by U.S. composers, including himself, through lectures, radio broadcasts, live performance, and conversations. Back at home, he used his celebrity to draw attention to regional composers he admired. Hess's focus on Latin America's reception of Copland provides a variety of outside perspectives on the composer and his mission. She also teases out the broader meanings behind reviews of Copland and examines his critics in the context of their backgrounds, training, aesthetics, and politics"--