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Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco »

Book cover image of Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco by Geoffrey Baker

Authors: Geoffrey Baker
ISBN-13: 9780822341604, ISBN-10: 0822341603
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: April 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Geoffrey Baker

Geoffrey Baker is a Lecturer in the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Book Synopsis

Study of musical culture in Cuzco challenges long-standing musicological approaches to colonial Latin America, placing local power relations at the heart of the analysis and exploring European music as an instrument of colonization and also its fruitful a

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
The Urban Soundscape     17
The Cathedral and the Seminary of San Antonio Abad     70
Convents and Monasteries     111
The Urban Parishes     149
The Rural Doctrinas de Indios     191
Conclusion     238
Notes     249
References     285
Index     299

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