Playing in the Cathedral

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Playing in the Cathedral is written by Jesús A. Ramos-Kittrell and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190612673 (ISBN 10) and 9780190612672 (ISBN 13).

In eighteenth-century Mexico City, cathedral musicians made explicit and considered use of music and institutional affiliation in order to construct their Spanish identity. Ramos-Kittrell argues that music, as a performative and theoretical activity, was a highly dynamic factor in the cultural and religious life of New Spain, and an active agent in the changing discourses of social status and "Spanishness" in colonial America.