Juan Bautista Plaza (1898-1965) was one of the most important   musicians in the history of Venezuela.  In addition to composing in a   variety of genres and styles, he was the leading figure in Venezuelan music   education and musicology at a time when his compatriots were seeking to   solidify their cultural identity.  Plaza's compositions in the emerging   nationalist style and his efforts to improve musical institutions in his   home country parallel the work of contemporaneous Latin American musicians   including Carlos Chávez of Mexico, Amadeo Roldán of Cuba, and Camargo   Guarnieri of Brazil.Plaza's life and music are little studied, and Labonville's ambitious   book is the first in English to be based on his extensive writings and   compositions.  As these and other documents show, Plaza filled numerous   roles in Venezuela's musical infrastructure including researcher,   performer, teacher, composer, promoter, critic, chapel master, and director   of national culture.  Labonville examines Plaza's many roles in an attempt   to assess how the nationalist spirit affected art music culture in   Venezuela, and what changes it brought to Venezuela's musical landscape.      "A path-breaking work that will be of great use to American scholarshipin   mapping out what remains, to our shame, largely terra incognita to musical   scholarship." -- Alejandro Enrique Planchart, Emeritus Professor of Music,   UCSB

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