Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America, (Hardcover)

The Spanish colonial project in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was distinctly urban in focus.

The impact of the written word on this process was explored in Ángel Rama' s seminal book The Lettered City, and much has been written by historians of art and architecture on its visible manifestations, yet the articulation of sound, urban geography and colonial power - 'the resounding city' - has been passed over in virtual silence.

This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the role of music in Spanish colonial urbanism in the New World and explores the urban soundscape and music profession as spheres of social contact, conflict, and negotiation.