Musical Practices and Mobility in Asunción

Laura Fahrenkrog Cianelli is associate professor of History at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile).

• Chapter 1. Asunción: Society and Musical Practices (16th and 17th Centuries)Chapter 2. Music in Pueblos de IndiosChapter 3. Institutions, Music, and MobilitiesChapter 4. Mobilities and Musical Practices of Indios CantoresChapter 5. Indios cantores after the Expulsion of the JesuitsChapter 6. No Han Concurrido Mas Los Indios Que Acostumbraban de Tiempo Inmemorial

“In a work of deep and rigorous historiography, and with an agile and precise writing, the author shows us a new dimension of key actors and processes to understand colonial Latin America. The conceptual axis of the indigenous mobility enables Fahrenkrog to link cultural practices and territorial connections that linked the Paraguayan missionary hinterland with the city of Asunción. It gives us a rich and original panorama on the missionary imprint of the Jesuits and the experience of indigenous circulation in the practices of urban singing and music, through a long period of history.”