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Villa-Lobos and Modernism

The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music
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 2022

Summary

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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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-1135-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-1136-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
378
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Acknowledgments No access
    3. Preface No access
  1. CHAPTER ONE. The Anthropophagic Aesthetic No access Pages 1 - 36
  2. CHAPTER TWO. Villa-Lobos, The “Cannibal Who Wore Tails” No access Pages 37 - 68
  3. CHAPTER THREE. The Sad Clowns of Carnival: Polichinelo and Petrushka No access Pages 69 - 84
  4. CHAPTER FOUR. Taking Flight with Two Ballet Birds: Uirapuru and Firebird No access Pages 85 - 102
  5. CHAPTER FIVE. Dissecting Uirapuru No access Pages 103 - 140
  6. CHAPTER SIX. Breaking Treaties: Amazonas and Le Sacre du Printemps No access Pages 141 - 162
  7. CHAPTER SEVEN. Diving into the Amazonas No access Pages 163 - 204
  8. CHAPTER EIGHT. Toward a New Assessment of Villa-Lobos No access Pages 205 - 238
  9. CHAPTER NINE. Villa-Lobos, The Surrealist No access Pages 239 - 288
  10. APPENDIX ONE. The Anthropophagous Manifesto: An Annotated Translation No access Pages 289 - 342
  11. APPENDIX TWO. Glossary of Musical Terminology No access Pages 343 - 348
  12. Bibliography No access Pages 349 - 368
  13. Index No access Pages 369 - 376
  14. About the Author No access Pages 377 - 378

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