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"Los vivas eran oídos a lo lejos entre el estruendo de las bandas militares": The Promotion of Music during the Second Mexican Empire
Abstract
This article aims to analyze the cultural “structures and practices” that Mexico inherited from the Second Mexican Empire, particularly in the field of arts and music, trying to be a counterbalance to the black legend that weighs on this stage of our history. My proposal is that many of the ideas brought to the country by the emperor —the Habsburg-Lorena Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian— are still in use today.