| Contents |
Introduction : the dance of conquest / Carol E. Robertson -- Complex acoustics in pre-Columbian flute systems / Susan Rawcliffe -- Implications of music technologies in the pre-Columbian Andes / Dale A. Olsen -- Bridging the past and the present / Julio Estrada and Peter García -- The music of Sephardic Spain : an exploratory view / Israel J. Katz -- Musicology and the cultural heritage of the Spanish Moors / Rodrigo de Zayas -- Music in the Christian courts of Spain / Alejandro Planchart -- The musical impact of exploration and cultural encounter / Frank LL. Harrison -- The character of exploration : Adrian Willaert's "Quid non ebrietas" / Dorothy Keyser -- Exploration and self-discovery in Renaissance music : two basic issues / Barry S. Brook -- Dramatization and antagonism in the Brazilian congadas / Elizabeth Travassos Lins. |
| Contents |
The death of Atahualpa / Luis Millones -- The representation of the "discovery" on the opera stage / Jürgen Maehder -- Mythologizing Pocahontas / Rayna Green -- Identity and change : nativism in operas from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico / Malena Kuss -- The emergence of myth as explanation / Julio Estrada -- The confluence of historical coordinates in Carpentier/Caturla's puppet opera Manita en el suelo / Malena Kuss -- Christian hymns in Eastern Woodlands communities : performance contexts / Beverley Diamond-Cavanagh -- The concept of nation in the Big drum dance of Carriacou, Grenada / Lorna McDaniel -- Encounters and identities in Andean brotherhoods / Ercilia Moreno Chá -- Hopi and Hawaiian music and dance : responses to cultural contact / Joann W. Keali'inohomoku -- Performance and identity : problems and perspectives / Anthony Seeger. |
| Local note | Little-294884--305131001155P |
| Local note | Little-294884--305131001155P |
| General note | Most essays from a symposium sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, spring 1988. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 92006895 |
| ISBN | 1560981830 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1560981849 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
