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Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus, Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), ISBN 978-0-199-75148-8 (Hb).

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Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus, Silvestre Revueltas: Sounds of a Political Passion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), ISBN 978-0-199-75148-8 (Hb).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2025

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1 Some of his most significant studies on Revueltas include Kolb-Neuhaus, Roberto, Silvestre Revueltas, catálogo de sus obras (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1998)Google Scholar; Kolb-Neuhaus, Roberto and Wolffer, José, eds., Silvestre Revueltas: Sonidos en Rebelión (Mexico City: UNAM, 2007)Google Scholar; Kolb-Neuhaus, Roberto, Revueltas, ‘SilvestreRedes’: Composing for Film or Filming for Music?’, Journal of Film Music 2/4 (2009), 127–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kolb-Neuhaus, Roberto, Contracanto: Una perspectiva semiótica de la obra temprana de Silvestre Revueltas (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012)Google Scholar; Kolb-Neuhaus, Roberto, ‘Silvestre Revueltas's Colorines vis-à-vis US Musical Modernisms: A Dialogue of the Deaf?’, Latin American Music Review 36/2 (2015), 194230CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus, ‘‘The Rending Call of the Poor and Forsaken Street Crier’: The Political and Expressive Dimension of a Topic in Silvestre Revueltas’ Early Works’, in Studies for a Global History of Music, ed. Reinhard Strohm (Oxford: Ashgate, 2016), 395–423.

2 See the chapters ‘Pathos is Banned‘ and ‘Lost—or Rejected—Illusions‘ in Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music, vol. 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 447–560; see also Sheinberg, Esti, Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich (London: Routledge, 2000)Google Scholar.

3 Kolb-Neuhaus has also discussed Revueltas's battle songs in ‘Silvestre Revueltas y el panfleto: una relación difícil’, Discanto 1 (2005), 187–204 and ‘Hanns Eisler, Silvestre Revueltas und die mexikanische Kampfliedkultur’’ in Hanns Eisler—Ein Komponist ohne Heimat, ed. Hartmut Krones (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2012), 133–50.