Mendívil, Julio. Against music. Buenos Aires: Gourmet Musical Ediciones, 2016, 192 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201801.012

Keywords:

nationalism and music, discourses about music, relations of power and music

Abstract


The book covers several current and controversial topics that music causes in our day-to-day life: the concept of music and its pretended universality, its relationship with identity - national and global - and the ways in which it operates, for better or worse, in a society mediated by information technologies.

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Author Biography

  • Fernando Elias Llanos, Fundação das Artes de São Caetano do Sul

    PhD from the Graduate Program in Music-School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo (PPGMUS-ECA / USP). Master in Music from the Art Institute of the Universidade Estadual Paulista (IA-UNESP). He teaches guitar at the São Caetano do Sul Arts Foundation (FASC). His research focuses on an ethnomusicology of the guitar, both studying the so-called "Brazilian guitar" and also the identity processes of Afro-Peruvian music. His publications include Sugestões para um estudo etnomusicológico do violão: uma revisão teórica (2018) and El Pacífico negro y el negro del Pacífico: a counterpoint to Gilroyan theses on Peruvian black music (2017). Mail: fllanos@usp.

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Ortiz, Renato (1992). Românticos e folcloristas: cultura popular. São Paulo: Editora Olho d’agua.

Rosaldo, Renato (1989). Culture and Truth. The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press.

Small, Christopher (1998). Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.

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Published

2018-07-17

Issue

Vol. 36 No. 40 (2018): Andean musical practices at the beginning of the 21st century

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How to Cite

Mendívil, Julio. Against music. Buenos Aires: Gourmet Musical Ediciones, 2016, 192 pp. (2018). Anthropologica del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, 36(40), 235-238. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201801.012