Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion

by Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus

Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) has been portrayed as a nationalist artist both at home and beyond Mexico's borders. However, the musicking of a presumed "Mexicanness" was far from Revueltas' mind. In Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion, author Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus shows how Revueltas, strongly inspired by the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, sought ways to sound the voice of the commoners wandering the Mexican streets,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019975148X
• ISBN13: 9780199751488
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"