The Course of Mexican Music provides students with a cohesive introductory understanding of the scope and influence of Mexican music. The textbook highlights individual musical examples as a means of exploring the processes of selection that led to specific musical styles in different times and places, with a supporting companion website with audio and video tracks helping to reinforce readers' understanding of key concepts. The aim is for students to learn an exemplary body of music as a window for understanding Mexican music, history and culture in a manner that reveals its importance well beyond the borders of that nation.
1. Why Study Mexican Music?
2. Defining and Listening to Mexican Music
3. Pre-Cortesian and Indigenous Music, Past and Present
4. Majesty, Machismo,
Mestizaje and Other Legacies of the Vice Kingdom of New Spain
5. Colonial
Legacies and Regional Responses: Sones Regionales
6. Sound Foundations for
Independence
7. Immigration and Cosmopolitan Identity During the Porfiriato
8. Gifts of the Revolution
9. Cinema, Radio and the Celebrity Cantante
10.
New Song and Rock Mexicano
11. Competing Popular Styles
12. Classical
Contemporary Music: New Frames for New Audiences
13. A Despedida and Closing
Reflections
Janet L. Sturman is Professor at the Fred Fox School of Music and Associate Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Arizona.
