Review: In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13, by Alejandro L. Madrid

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Book Review| April 01 2018 Review: In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13, by Alejandro L. Madrid In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13, by Alejandro L. Madrid. Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xxi, 303 pp. Christina Taylor Gibson Christina Taylor Gibson CHRISTINA TAYLOR GIBSON is a Lecturer at the Catholic University of America. Her scholarly work deals with US-Mexican cultural exchange during the twentieth century. Recent publications include “Chávez, Modern Music, and the New York Scene” in Carlos Chávez and His World (Princeton University Press, 2015) and “Carrillo and Sonido Trece in New York” in the journal La Habana elegante (2014). She is currently working on a book about Chávez's female patrons in the United States. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2018) 71 (1): 268–272. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2018.71.1.268 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Christina Taylor Gibson; Review: In Search of Julián Carrillo and Sonido 13, by Alejandro L. Madrid. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2018; 71 (1): 268–272. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2018.71.1.268 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Within Latin American musicology Alejandro Madrid is a well-known figure. He has published broadly on topics as diverse as electronic dance music, danzón, pedagogy, and Mexican nationalism. Despite this variety, each of Madrid's texts engages with critical discourse beyond the implied boundaries of the topic at hand. His default linguistic mode is rigorously academic, one that assumes a secure foundation in relevant philosophical and theoretical texts on the part of his readers. This technique can result in moments of insight and connection not found in other types of thinking and writing, notwithstanding occasional moments of knotty prose. Given these proclivities, Mexican composer Julián Carrillo would seem a strange choice of subject for this author. Within his native country Carrillo's Romantic symphonies and microtonal experiments are known but often dismissed; outside the country few musicians know his name, much less his musical legacy. It might be fair to say that... You do not currently have access to this content.