Overview
This work explores how cathedral musicians in eighteenth-century Mexico City relied on music and on their institutional affiliation to define their social place. In the tensions that brewed within New Spain's racial casta (or caste) system, people of mixed race increasingly competed for Spanish benefits and prerogatives.
- | Author: Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 249 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Music
- | ISBN-10: 0190236817
- | ISBN-13: 9780190236816
