An Uncertain Glory

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From two of India's leading economists, Jean Dr�ze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India, despite economic development. When India regained independence from colonial rule in 1947, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced stagnation, accelerating further over the last three decades to make India's growth the second fastest among large economies. Despite a recent dip, it is still one of the highest in the world. Maintaining rapid yet environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and achieveable goal for India. Dr�ze and Sen argue that the country's... CONTENTS Acknowledgements Editorial matters List of musical examples List of figures Chapter One. Introduction I. Difference and History in the Americas II. The Narrative Chapter Two: The Roots of Pan Americanism I. Historical Premises II. Pan Americanism and Music: An Overview Chapter Three: Carlos Chavez and Ur-Classicism II. Absolute Mexican Music: "True Classicism" and Universalism in the Americas Chapter Four: Carlos Chavez's H.P.: Dialectical Indigenism, Mestizaje, and the Politics of Sameness I. To "Suggest Objectively the Life of All America": Chavez and Dialectical Indigenism. II. "Find Me a Primitive Man": Premiere and Reception Chapter Five: Brazilian Modernism and the Making of "American Rhythm": Villa-Lobos at the 1939 World's Fair I. From "Hallucinated City" To Democracity: Villa-Lobos, the Many Faces of Brazilian Modernism, and the Good Neighbor II. Caliban Unbound: Villa-Lobos and Unsublimated Primitivism Chapter Six: The Golden Age: Pan Americanist Culture, War, and the Triumph of Universalism I. Pan Americanist Culture and Music in the United States II. Folklore Cults and the "League of Minor Musical Nations" III. Nationalism: The "Greatest Foe" IV. "The Brazilian Oklahoma! and the Memory of Universalism Chapter Seven: Alberto Ginastera's Bomarzo: Sublimation and the Annihilation of Difference I. Ginastera in the United States: Becoming a "Musical McNamara" II. Bomarzo: Sublimation and the "Strength of the Repressed Urge" III. Censorship and the Limits of Aleatory Chapter Eight: Memory, Music, and the Latin American Cold War: Frederic Rzewksi's Variations on 'The People United Will Never Be Defeated! I. Nueva Cancion, Musica Nacional, and the Cold War II. "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" and the Rhetoric of Memory Chapter Nine: Epilogue. Utopia and Pan Americanism's Legacy Bibliography