Book Review| April 01 2022 De Nueva España a México: El universo musical mexicano entre centenarios (1517–1917), edited by Javier Marín-López De Nueva España a México: El universo musical mexicano entre centenarios (1517–1917), edited by JavierMarín-López. Seville: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, 2020. 742 pp. Alejandro García Sudo, Alejandro García Sudo ALEJANDRO GARCÍA SUDO has an MA in Musicology from the University of Western Ontario, and completed doctoral coursework at UCLA under Fulbright–García Robles sponsorship. As an independent scholar, he is working on projects that assess the transnational dimensions of musical performance, the weight of pan-American discourses in intellectual circles, and the role of Latin American music in government-sponsored projects of the interwar period. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Elisabeth Le Guin Elisabeth Le Guin ELISABETH LE GUIN is Professor of Musicology at UCLA, and Host and Program Director for Si yo fuera una canción, a bilingual podcast exploring the lives of ordinary people in Santa Ana, California, through conversations about the songs they love. Her academic research has journeyed from Italy to Spain to Mexico, asking questions about the historiography of embodied performance along the way. She has received several awards from the American Musicological Society as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2022) 75 (1): 167–180. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.167 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 Alejandro García Sudo, Elisabeth Le Guin; De Nueva España a México: El universo musical mexicano entre centenarios (1517–1917), edited by Javier Marín-López. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2022; 75 (1): 167–180. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.167 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 Borrowing its title from an international congress organized in 2017 in the city of Baeza, Spain, De Nueva España a México: El universo musical mexicano entre centenarios (1517–1917) came to light in 2020 during a flurry of activities commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital (1521), the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence from Spain (1821), and the centennial of the Mexican revolution (1910–17). The ambitious chronological framing of the title, which is more than a little factitious, results in a hefty volume (available gratis online as a PDF)1 that brings together texts of different lengths and calibers, as conference proceedings often do. The difference between a conference and a book is key. In the former, the horizon is crowded with trial balloons; the title or organizing principle serves as an invitation to launch them; and the format abounds in opportunities for comparison, feedback, dialogue,... You do not currently have access to this content.