Imposing Harmony: Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco

by Geoffrey Baker

Book Overview

Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology's cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated by the cathedral, Cuzco's musical culture was remarkably decentralized. He shows that institutions such as parish churches and monasteries employed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341603
• ISBN13: 9780822341604
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"