Listening to Fernando Ortiz’s Latin-American Contrapunteo

Authors

  • Enea Zaramella

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v1i8p18-39

Keywords:

transculturation, counterpoint, lettered listening, identity, translation.

Abstract

Rhythms, accents, forms, harmonies and counterpoints are some of the musical geographies used to interpret Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar. Because of these features, it is possible to open up the anthropological notion of transculturation, which has been used as an integral framework within the study of Latin American identity since its first use in 1940. Through a critical approach based on listening, this paper draws attention to a series of analytical tools that can inform the lettered interpretation of culture, and, as such, critically reconsiders Ortiz’s cultural analysis within the structural boundaries of his essay.

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Author Biography

  • Enea Zaramella

    Licenciado de la Università degli Studi di Trieste (2007) y doctor de Princeton University (2015). Sus estudios sobre literatura investigan las relaciones entre producción cultural latinoamericana, sonidos, paisajes sonoros y medios de comunicación. Ha publicado artículos en revistas especializadas tanto de EEUU como de América Latina, así como una entrevista al filósofo francés Jacques Rancière, junto con Gavin Arnall y Laura Gandolfi. Actualmente radica en la Ciudad de México donde se interesa y escribe sobre cultura y paisajes sonoros, como en la reciente colaboración con Horizontal.mx, una evocación sonora de las protestas ciudadanas en apoyo a los desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa.

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Published

2014-12-13

Issue

No. 8: (july-december 2014) Dossier Music and Languages

Section

Dossier

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ZARAMELLA, Enea. Listening to Fernando Ortiz’s Latin-American Contrapunteo. Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, v. 1, n. 8, p. 18–39, 2014. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v1i8p18-39. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/caracol/article/view/98956.. Acesso em: 14 jun. 2024.