Bringing Mozart to the Masses: Venezuela's Music Revolution

Maria Páez Victor

Chapter 42 in Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders, 2014, pp 317-320 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: As a sociologist, I often roamed the dirt tracks of the poor sections of my hometown Caracas, and it seemed to me that from the open windows, I would always hear someone singing or strumming the Venezuelan four-string guitar, el cuatro, or see some fellow unselfconsciously walking by whistling or singing. Later on, reading the memoirs of an English officer of Simón Bolívar's British Legion that fought for the Venezuelan Independence Revolution, I was struck by his observation that at the bivouacs after the day's march, as the men sat around the campfires, they created music. “Most of the natives are musicians and singers,”1 he wrote…

Keywords: Envisioning; Sustainable Future; Desirable Future; Positive Future; Future History; Scenarios; World Views (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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