{"title":"Musical Cultures of the Ibero-American Borderlands","authors":"K. Mann, D. Davies","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.013.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.013.31","url":null,"abstract":"Music and dance were key elements of culture in the Ibero-American borderlands that served to reflect, shape, and express cultural and political realities. From colonizers’ perspectives, proficiency in Western musical practices equaled acculturation to Catholic norms and civilized, sedentary society. At the same time, performances of music and dance articulated changing native identities. There was no single borderlands music or dance, and evidence in the form of music manuscripts, eyewitness accounts, and musical instruments remains fragmented and scattered among periods and locations. Practices such as liturgical chant, bell ringing, religious songs, communal dance, orchestral music, and other musical arts formed integral parts of mission and urban life in the borderlands throughout the colonial period. Whereas the interior church spaces such as Durango Cathedral, were dominated by performative music genres, music making in rural and urban exterior spaces included participatory activities that produced diverse ambient soundscapes.","PeriodicalId":111880,"journal":{"name":"The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115485102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Montanez-Sanabria, María Ximena Urbina Carrasco
{"title":"The Spanish Empire’s Southernmost Frontiers","authors":"E. Montanez-Sanabria, María Ximena Urbina Carrasco","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.013.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.013.35","url":null,"abstract":"After the 1598 Araucanian rebellion, the Bío Bío River remained as the imperial southernmost frontier during Spanish rule. However, the territory between Bío Bío River and Tierra del Fuego comprised three differentiated groups: the Araucanos, in northern Toltén River; the Huilliches, in the south; and the Austral Canoeros in the insular region, or mobile of Aysén. Although the Araucanía was traditionally considered the frontier with the Spanish Empire, the “frontera de arriba,” or Huilliche, and the mobile of Aysén, constituted the last frontier in the continent and the theater of interaction between local indigenous peoples and European privateers. This chapter examines the complexities of this region, including its condition of triple frontier as well as the attempts of privateers to forge alliances with local populations to establish colonies in the region. It argues that the interaction of these internal and external “enemies” of Spain shaped this borderland.","PeriodicalId":111880,"journal":{"name":"The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128921574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fluctuating Frontiers in the Borderlands of Mesoamerica","authors":"Fernando Berrojalbiz, M. Hers","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.013.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.013.28","url":null,"abstract":"The formation of northern New Spain was anticipated by numerous events that took place centuries before the first Europeans set foot in what would later become the North of Mexico and the US Southwest: successive expansions of Mesoamerica, substantial population movements of various northern peoples, and consequent ethnic encounters, exchanges, conflict, and continual reconfigurations. For the Mesoamerican groups that took part in the conquest and settlement of northern New Spain, their participation signified the recovery of the lands of their distant ancestors from the legendary Chicomoztoc. Some northern groups confronting the Spanish, on the other hand, had only arrived in that contested zone a few generations before, initiating a long process of transformations that gave rise to the extreme cultural diversity that characterized the extensive North of New Spain.","PeriodicalId":111880,"journal":{"name":"The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128957868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tierra Incognita","authors":"José Refugio de la Torre Curiel","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.013.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199341771.013.14","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyzes cartographic materials and geographic descriptions of New Spain’s northwestern borderlands elaborated by Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explains the meaning of these documents as expressions of the aspirations of these religious institutions to extend their projects of territorial occupation toward that frontier; suggesting that far from simple descriptions of regions inhabited by Pima and Yuma Indians and other peoples between the northern region of the province of Sonora and the banks of the Gila and Colorado rivers, these testimonies were inspired by the need to demonstrate the viability of establishing mission towns and Spanish occupation along those frontiers.","PeriodicalId":111880,"journal":{"name":"The [Oxford] Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126636634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}