Sonorous Worlds – Musical Enchantment in Venezuela Stainova Hardback

Sonorous WorldsMusical Enchantment in Venezuela\nAuthor(s): Yana Stainova\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472132737, 978-0472132737\nSynopsis\nEl Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by economist and musician Jos Antonio Abreu, the institution has weathered seven jolting changes in government. Hugo Chvez and, after his death, president Nicols Maduro enthusiastically included the institution into the political agenda of the socialist project and captured the affective power of music for their own aims. Fueled by the oil boom in the 2000s, El Sistema grew over the years to encompass 1,210 orchestras for children and young people in Venezuela, reached almost 1 million people out of the 30 million in the country, and served as a model in more than 35 countries around the world.\n\nSonorous Worlds is an ethnography of the young Venez.