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OverviewEl Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by economist and musician José Antonio Abreu, the institution has weathered seven jolting changes in government. Hugo Chávez and, after his death, the incumbent president Nicolás Maduro enthusiastically included the institution into the political agenda of the socialist project and captured the affective power of music for their own aims. Fueled by the oil boom in the 2000s, El Sistema grew over the years to encompass 1,210 orchestras for children and youth in Venezuela, reached almost 1 million people out of the 30 million in the country, and served as a model in more than 35 countries around the world. Sonorous Worlds is an ethnography of the young Venezuelan musicians who participate in El Sistema, many of whom live in urban barrios and face everyday gang violence, state repression, social exclusion, and forced migration in response to sociopolitical crisis. This book looks at how these youth engage with what the author calls “enchantment,” that is, how they use musical practices to escape, rupture, and critique dominant structures of power. Stainova’s focus on artistic practice and enchantment allows her to theorize the successes and failures of political projects through the lens of the everyday transformations in people’s lives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Yana StainovaPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9780472132737ISBN 10: 0472132733 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 30 October 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction I. Music 1. Touched by Music 2. Dreaming within Systems 3. El Sistema II. Enchantment 4. SuperaciÓn 5. The Life Behind the Music 6. Musical Vitalities 7. The Sonorous Gift 8. Enchantment as Method 9. An Enchanted Reading III. Aspiration 10. Violence 11. The Labor of Enchantment 12. Revolutionary Mothering 13. Sonic Citizenship IV. Power 14. Temporalities 15. The Ineffable 16. The Hearing State 17. The Dictatorship of Luxury 18. Sonorous Silence 19. Spaces of Social Ineffability 20. Dancing Energies Coda Bibliography IndexReviews"Winner: CASCA (Canadian Anthropological Society) 2022 Labrecque-Lee Book Prize-- ""CASCA Labrecque-Lee Book Prize"" Co-Winner: Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) 2022 Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing-- ""SHA Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing"" Winner: Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) 2021 Book Prize-- ""SLACA Book Prize"" ""Overall, Sonorous Worlds offers a rich and moving account of students operating within one of the world's most renowned and polarising classical music programmes operating in a political context that is no less polarising. Stainova compellingly demonstrates the successes and failings of the organisation by focusing on the everyday transformation that occurs within young musicians' lives."" --LSE Review of Books-- ""LSE Review of Books"" ""Stainova's book is an engaging combination of theoretical insight and observations from fieldwork and interviews with Sistema musicians spanning 2011-2018. ...This book will be interesting to music scholars, educators, and performers and anyone who has asked themselves questions about music and its place in society, particularly during times of struggle or unrest."" --CAML Review-- ""CAML Reviews"" ""Sonorous Worlds offers a note of hope in its celebration of utopian creativity through music."" --NACLA Report on the Americas--Julie Skurski ""NACLA Report on the Americas""" Sonorous Worlds offers a note of hope in its celebration of utopian creativity through music. --NACLA Report on the Americas--Julie Skurski NACLA Report on the Americas Author InformationYana Stainova is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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