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Imitating Africans, Listening for Angels: A Slaveholder’s Fantasy of Social Harmony in an “Ethnic Villancico” from Colonial Puebla (1652)

Andrew A. Cashner
Journal: Journal of Musicology
Journal of Musicology (2021) 38 (2): 141–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/jm.2021.38.2.141
Published: 01 April 2021
... the Angolans and the angels sing together—but in different meters. Based on the first edition of this music, the article interprets this villancico within the social and theological context of colonial Puebla and its new cathedral, consecrated in 1649. I argue that through this music, members of the Spanish...
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