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    "pk": 57097,
    "title": "Benedicto Sáenz 'Libera Me':  Occidentalisms in Latin America Nineteenth-Century Sacred Music",
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    "abstract": "This article uses concepts of Occidentalism and the musical analysis of a funerary responsory by nineteenth-century Guatemalan composer Benedicto Sáenz (1807-1857) to examine possible reasons why music from nineteenth-century Latin America remains relatively neglected in the region and beyond, unlike the better explored repertoires from colonial times and from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Based on Latin American postcolonial notions of Occidentalism as the construction of the Western Hemisphere by Western Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and analysis of Sáenzs responsory \nLibera Me \nwithin the context of changing political, social, and musical trends in nineteenth-century Guatemala, I argue that nineteenth-century music in Latin America reflects local struggles to engage with two competing models of European modernity: the “first modernity” of the Spanish colonial empire and the “second modernity” of the Enlightenment, Liberalism, and the French Revolution. Responding to influences from both modernities, \nLibera Me\n expresses local European habiti that do not fit Orientalist narratives of Latin American Otherness or nationalist narratives of local distinctiveness which have influenced the musical historiography in the region.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "occidentalism, nineteenth century, Guatemala, Benedicto Sáenz, postcolonialism, sacred music, occidentalismo, siglo XIX, Guatemala, Benedicto Sáenz, poscolonialismo, música sacra"
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        {
            "first_name": "Andrés",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Amado Pineda",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Texas Rio Grande Valley",
            "department": ""
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    ],
    "date_submitted": "2022-11-08T08:02:17+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2022-11-08T08:02:17+05:30",
    "date_published": "2022-01-01T05:30:00+05:30",
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