Magic Realism in Music and Literature: The French-Latin American Axis Since 1920

by Caroline Rae

This is the first book to explore the manifestation of myth, magic and mysticism in music since 1920 against a background of the emergent literary movement that has become known as magic realism. The problematic and much debated term, magic realism, has been used in the context of literary and visual arts criticism, as well as that of contemporary cinema, but its relationship to the field of musical composition has been largely overlooked. Caroline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754652238
• ISBN13: 9780754652236
• Release Date: December 2029
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages