Musical Practices and Mobility in Asunción - (Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America) (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book focuses on the musical practices of Indigenous musicians in colonial Asunción (Paraguay). By transcending the city limits imposed by urban approaches, it enables a novel reading of musical practices in a city connected with its hinterland, revealing the different musical physiognomies of the empire in distant contexts.

Book Synopsis

This book focuses on the musical practices of Indigenous musicians in colonial Asuncióoacute;n (Paraguay). By transcending the city limits imposed by urban approaches, it enables a novel reading of musical practices in a city connected with its hinterland, revealing the different musical physiognomies of the empire in distant contexts.

Review Quotes

ldquo;In a work of deep and rigorous historiography, and with an agile and precise writing, the author shows us a new dimension of key actors and processes to understand colonial Latin America. The conceptual axis of the indigenous mobility enables Fahrenkrog to link cultural practices and territorial connections that linked the Paraguayan missionary hinterland with the city of Asuncioacute;n. It gives us a rich and original panorama on the missionary imprint of the Jesuits and the experience of indigenous circulation in the practices of urban singing and music, through a long period of history.rdquo;

About the Author

Laura Fahrenkrog Cianelli is associate professor of History at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile).