Aaron Copland in Latin America : music and cultural politics /

"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 examinat...

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Main Author: Hess, Carol A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Series:Music in American life.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.