Playing in the Cathedral. Music, Race and Status in New Spain

Abstract

1. Studying Music Culture in New Spain -- Introduction -- Rupture and Continuity -- New Approaches to Colonial Music Culture -- 2. Music, Race, and Social Status -- Introduction -- Music and Social Life -- Race and Calidad -- Shifting Trends in Music and the Benefits of Corporate Membership -- 3. Music, Letters, and the Clerical Path -- Introduction -- Limpieza De Sangre as Social Currency -- Nobility: The Desired Calidad -- Music: Strategy for An Ecclesiastical Career -- The Choir Chaplains -- 4. Ignacio Jerusalem and Changes in Music Thought -- Introduction -- Politics in Music Thought -- Profiling a Chapelmaster -- Musica Practica Versus Musica Especulativa -- The Limits of Musica Practica: Caveats for a Parvenu -- 5. Decency in the Music Chapel -- Introduction -- pt. One Antecedents -- pt. Two Transforming the Music Chapel.