Sounds of the Modern Nation

Alejandro L. Madrid is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Nor-tec Rifa! Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World and co-editor (with Ignacio Corona) of Postnational Musical Identities. Cultural Production, Distribution, and Consumption in a Globalized Scenario.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: History, Ideas, Musical Writing, and the Writing of Music 1. Modernism, Teleology, and Identity: Toward a Cultural Understanding of Julian Carillo's Sonodo 13 2. The Avant-Garde as a Site of Identification: Style and Ideology in Carlos Chavez's Early Music 3. Manuel M. Ponce, from Nineteenth-Century Modernismo to Twentieth-Century Modernism 4. The Sounds of the Nation, Modernity, and Tradition: The First National Congress of Music as Synecdoche of Discourses 5. Porfirian Music in Revolutionary Times: Atzimba and the Imagination of "the Indigenous" 6. Ideas, Canon, Revolution, and Places in History: Carlos Chavez and His Relationships with Julian Carrillo and Manual M. Ponce Notes Bibliography Index

"[I]t is not necessary to be a musician to appreciate and comprehend many of Madrid's arguments. At every turn in this brilliant, challenging and beautifully structured book, Madrid pushes for complexity over simplification, and for the importance of individual artistic identity over that of aesthetic movements, or the hegemonic power of either history or the state. Sounds of the Modern Nation...makes fascinating reading for those with an interest in Mexican cultural history. And for musicologists of all stripes, it is indispensable for understanding how Mexican music achieved modernity."-The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education