Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
Playing in the cathedral
Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell · 2016
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This work explores how cathedral musicians in eighteenth-century Mexico City relied on music and on their institutional affiliation to define their social place. In the tensions that brewed within New Spain's racial casta (or caste) system, people of mixed race increasingly competed for Spanish benefits and prerogatives.
Book details
- Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Series
- Currents in Latin American and Iberian music
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 228
- ISBN
- 9780190236816
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