Description
Book SynopsisEl Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela.
Sonorous Worlds is an ethnography of the young Venezuelan musicians who participate in El Sistema, many of whom live in urban barrios and face everyday gang violence, state repression, social exclusion, and forced migration in response to sociopolitical crisis.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I. Music
- 1. Touched by Music
- 2. Dreaming within Systems
- 3. El Sistema
- II. Enchantment
- 4. SuperaciÓn
- 5. The Life Behind the Music
- 6. Musical Vitalities
- 7. The Sonorous Gift
- 8. Enchantment as Method
- 9. An Enchanted Reading
- III. Aspiration
- 10. Violence
- 11. The Labor of Enchantment
- 12. Revolutionary Mothering
- 13. Sonic Citizenship
- IV. Power
- 14. Temporalities
- 15. The Ineffable
- 16. The Hearing State
- 17. The Dictatorship of Luxury
- 18. Sonorous Silence
- 19. Spaces of Social Ineffability
- 20. Dancing Energies
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
