Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Permissions and Credits xviii
6. Part 1. Chávez’s Musical World
7. Chávez, Modern Music, and the New York Scene 2
8. The Pan/American Modernisms of Carlos Chávez and Henry Cowell 28
9. “The heartbeat of an intense life”: Mexican Music and Carlos Chávez’s Orquesta Sinfónica de México, 1928–1948 46
10. Carlos Chávez’s Symphonies 62
11. Carlos Chávez and Silvestre Revueltas: Retracing an Ignored Dialogue 76
12. Aaron Copland, Carlos Chávez, and Silvestre Revueltas 99
13. Part II. Biographical and Analytical Perspectives
14. Chávez and the Autonomy of the Musical Work: The Piano Music 112
15. Carlos Chávez and the Myth of the Aztec Renaissance 134
16. Non-Repetition and Personal Style in the Inventions and Solis 165
17. Music and the Marketplace: On the Backstory of Carlos Chávez’s Violin Concerto 178
18. Part III. Chávez’s Greater World
19. Carlos Chávez and the Mexican “Vogue,” 1925–1940 204
20. Carlos Chávez and Paul Strand 220
21. Masters Carlos Chávez and Miguel Covarrubias: A Puppet Show 237
22. The Literary Affinities and Poetic Friendships of Carlos Chávez 255
23. The Composer as Intellectual: Carlos Chávez and El Colegio Nacional 273
24. Portraits of Carlos Chávez: Testimonies of Collaboration 295
25. The Modernist Invention of Mexico: Carlos Chávez, the Mexican Revolution, and the Cultural Politics of Music 306
26. Index 339
27. Notes on the Contributors 357
28. Backmatter 361