Description
Book SynopsisEl Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by economist and musician Jose Antonio Abreu.
Sonorous Worlds is an ethnography of the young Venezuelan musicians who participate in El Sistema, many of whom live in urban barrios.
Trade Review"
Sonorous Worlds offers a note of hope in its celebration of utopian creativity through music."—
NACLA Report on the Americas"Stainova’s book is an engaging combination of theoretical insight and observations from fieldwork and interviews with Sistema musicians spanning 2011-2018. ...This book will be interesting to music scholars, educators, and performers and anyone who has asked themselves questions about music and its place in society, particularly during times of struggle or unrest."—
CAML ReviewTable 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
