Playing in the cathedral

Playing in the cathedral

by Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell

Part of Currents in Latin American and Iberian music

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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.

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