La Ciudad y su Musica

Five decades and several editions after its first publication José Antonio Calcaño’s La Ciudad y su Música remains the most comprehensive and authoritative history of Venezuelan music. Intended for a general readership, the book recounts the development of music and musical life in Caracas in the larger context of the country’s evolution from a European outpost to a fully-formed autonomous nation. But the focus of this blog is not the narrative; what I’m interested in is the processes.