Download or read book Villa-Lobos and Modernism written by Ricardo Averbach and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricardo Averbach places Heitor Villa-Lobos as the top exponent of Cultural Cannibalism in music, an aesthetic movement that has been neglected due to traditional Eurocentric views of Modernism. Villa-Lobos and Modernism shows how much our present aesthetics owes to the Modernist ideas introduced by the Brazilian composer.