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Villa-Lobos and Modernism
The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music
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2022
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Villa-Lobos and Modernism: The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music provides a new assessment of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in terms of his contributions to the Modernist Movement of the twentieth century. In this profound study, Ricardo Averbach elevates Cultural Cannibalism as a major manifestation of the Modernist aesthetics and Villa-Lobos as its top exponent in the music field. Villa-Lobos’s anthropophagic appetite for multiple opposing aesthetics enlightens through the juxtaposition of contradictory elements, leaving a legacy of unmatched originality, a glittering kaleidoscope of sounds that draw from the radical power of Josephine Baker to the outrageous extravagance of Carmen Miranda, from Dada to Einstein’s counterintuitive scientific findings, from folklorism to atonality. The constructed analyses use the works of Stravinsky as a familiar and popular touchstone for accessing Villa-Lobos as the leading exponent of an aesthetic movement that has been neglected due to a traditional Eurocentric view of Modernism. Averbach opens up new possibilities for the study of twentieth-century music, in general, while unveiling how much our present aesthetics owes to the Modernist ideas introduced by the Brazilian composer.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1135-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1136-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
378
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
CHAPTER ONE. The Anthropophagic Aesthetic No access Pages 1 - 36
CHAPTER TWO. Villa-Lobos, The “Cannibal Who Wore Tails” No access Pages 37 - 68
CHAPTER THREE. The Sad Clowns of Carnival: Polichinelo and Petrushka No access Pages 69 - 84
CHAPTER FOUR. Taking Flight with Two Ballet Birds: Uirapuru and Firebird No access Pages 85 - 102
CHAPTER FIVE. Dissecting Uirapuru No access Pages 103 - 140
CHAPTER SIX. Breaking Treaties: Amazonas and Le Sacre du Printemps No access Pages 141 - 162
CHAPTER SEVEN. Diving into the Amazonas No access Pages 163 - 204
CHAPTER EIGHT. Toward a New Assessment of Villa-Lobos No access Pages 205 - 238
CHAPTER NINE. Villa-Lobos, The Surrealist No access Pages 239 - 288
APPENDIX ONE. The Anthropophagous Manifesto: An Annotated Translation No access Pages 289 - 342
APPENDIX TWO. Glossary of Musical Terminology No access Pages 343 - 348
Bibliography No access Pages 349 - 368
Index No access Pages 369 - 376
About the Author No access Pages 377 - 378
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