Inca Music Reimagined

Vera Wolkowicz holds a PhD in Music from the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on Latin American musical nationalisms during the first decades of the twentieth century, and Italian opera in mid-nineteenth-century Buenos Aires. She has been recently awarded an H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship at the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of Música de América. Estudio preliminar y edición crítica (2012) and has co-edited the unpublished scores of Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000).

• List of FiguresList of Musical ExamplesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Indigenous musical heritage and Latin American art music1. Shaping a continental identity: race, nations, civilizations, utopia, and the arts2. "We are the Incas" Discussing Indigenism in national musical discourse in Peru3. To be Inca or not to be Inca? Building Ecuador's musical past 4. Argentina and the appropriation of the Inca past?5. The Incas go to the opera?Epilogue - Art music and the Incas: past and presentBibliographyList of journals and newspapers consultedIndex

This is a groundbreaking book about music nationalism and the utopia of the Inca imaginary in Latin America. Based on a comprehensive field and archival research in countries such as Peru, Ecuador and Argentina, the author explores the processes of construction of national identities through the creation of a nationalist art music during the first three decades of the twentieth century. This brilliantly written and highly organized book will capture the attention not only of musicologists, but also of anyone interested in the processes of nation building in Latin America and elsewhere.