IN SEARCH OF JULIÁN CARRILLO AND SONIDO 13
ALEJANDRO L. MADRID
CURRENTS IN LATIN AMERICAN AND IBERIAN MUSIC

-FIRST BOOK LENGTH TREATMENT OF JULIÁN CARRILLO PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH
-EMPLOYS AN INNOVATIVE TRANSHISTORICAL FRAMEWORK
-DRAWS ON METHODOLOGIES FROM MUSICOLOGY, ETHNOMUSICOLOGY, PERFORMANCE STUDIES, AND POSCOLONIAL THEORY
-REIMAGINES THE TRADITIONAL 'COMPOSER STUDY'

DESCRIPTIONS:
-IN THE 1920S, THE MEXICAN COMPOSER JULIÁN CARRILLO (1875-1965) DEVELOPED A MICROTONAL SYSTEM CALLED EL SONIDO 13 (THE 13TH SOUND). ALTHOUGH HIS PIONEERING ROLE AS ONE OF THE FIRST PROPONENTS OF MICROTONALITY WITHIN THE WESTERN ART MUSIC TRADITION ELEVATED CARRILLO TO ICONIC STATUS AMONG EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE CIRCLES IN THE 1960S AND 1970S, HIS MUSIC AND LEGACY HAVE REMAINED LARGELY OVERLOOKED BY MUSIC SCHOLARS, CRITICS, AND PERFORMERS.

-CONFRONTING THIS PAUCITY OF SCHOLARSHIP ON CARRILLO AND HIS MUSIC, ALEJANDRO L. MADRID GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND 'FILLING IN' THE HISTORICAL RECORD. COMBINING ARCHIVAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH WITH MUSICAL ANALYSIS AND CULTURAL THEORY, MADRID ARGUES THAT CARRILLO AND SONIDO 13 ARE BEST UNDERSTOOD AS A CULTURAL COMPLEX: A NETWORK OF MOMENTS, SPACES, AND ARTICULATIONS IN WHICH CARRILLO AND HIS MUSIC CONTINUOUSLY RE-ACQUIRE SIGNIFICANCE AND MEANING. THUS, MADRID EXPLORES CARRILLO`S MUSIC AND IDEAS NOT ONLY IN RELATION TO THE HISTORICAL MOMENTS OF THEIR INCEPTION, BUT ALSO IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS CULTURAL PROJECTS THAT KEPT THEM ALIVE AND RE-SIGNIFIED THEM THROUGH THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. ESCHEWING TRADITIONALLY LINEAR HISTORICAL FRAMEWORKS, IN SEARCH OF JULIÁN CARRILLO AND SONIDO 13 EMPLOYS AN INNOVATIVE TRANSHISTORICAL NARRATIVE IN WHICH PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE ARE EXPLORED DIALOGICALLY IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE AND SELF-REPRESENTATION BEHIND CARRILLO AND SONIDO 13.

-IN SEARCH OF JULIÁN CARRILLO AND SONIDO 13 TRANSFORMS THE TRADITIONAL GENRE OF THE COMPOSER STUDY, TREATING IT NOT AS A CELEBRATION OF 'MASTERS' AND 'MASTERWORKS,' BUT AS A POINTED POSTCOLONIAL INTERVENTION THAT OFFERS INVALUABLE INSIGHT INTO THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE, EXPERIMENTALISM, MARGINALITY, AND CULTURAL CAPITAL IN TWENTIETH CENTURY MEXICO.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
-ABOUT THE COMPANION WEBSITE
-LIST OF FIGURES
-LIST OF MUSIC EXAMPLES
-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: A CULTURAL COMPLEX`S
NON-LINEAR STORY

CHAPTER 2. IMITATION, IDEOLOGY, PERFORMATIVITY, AND
CARRILLO`S SYMPHONY NO. 1

CHAPTER 3. `...Y HERMOSÍSIMA PATRIA SERÁ`: NATIONAL AND
POST-NATIONAL TRANSFIGURATIONS IN MATILDE

CHAPTER 4. MODERNISM, TELEOLOGY, AND IDENTITY: TOWARD
A CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF EARLY SONIDO 13

CHAPTER 5. READING CARRILLO: THE FUTURE THAT NEVER WAS
CHAPTER 6. CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES IN AN IMAGINARY
CYCLE: THE THIRTEEN STRING QUARTETS

CHAPTER 7. EXPERIMENTALISM, MYTHOLOGY, THE INTERMUNDANE,
AND SONIDO 13 AFTER JULIÁN CARRILLO

CHAPTER 8. ESTRANGEMENT, PERFORMANCE, AND PERFORMATIVITY:
MUSICKING SONIDO 13

BIBLIOGRAPHY

AUTHOR INFORMATION:
ALEJANDRO L. MADRID IS A MUSIC SCHOLAR AND CULTURAL THEORIST WHOSE RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE INTERSECTION OF MODERNITY, TRADITION, AND GLOBALIZATION IN MUSIC AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE FROM MEXICO, THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, AND THE CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN. HIS BOOKS HAVE RECEIVED THE AMS`S ROBERT M. STEVENSON AND RUTH A. SOLIE AWARDS, THE BÉLA BARTÓK AWARD FROM THE ASCAP DEEMS TAYLOR AWARDS, IASPM`S WOODY GUTHRIE BOOK AWARD, AND THE CASA DE LAS AMÉRICAS MUSICOLOGY PRIZE. HE IS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MUSICOLOGY AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY.