Abstract

OJEDA, Nicolás. Between the taste for instrumental music and the walk in the fresh Air. Programming and sociability in the orchestral concerts of the Jardín Florida (Buenos Aires, 1880-1883). Humanidades [online]. 2023, vol.13, n.1, pp.98-121. ISSN 2215-3934.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/h.v13i1.53210.

This article explores the musical experiences of a recreational space in the center of Buenos Aires, the Jardín Florida, towards the beginning of the 1880s. For this, the musical programs highlighted during three different seasons –each with featured repertoires– are recovered, and the forms of interaction with and around music are reconstructed according to the social practices of the elite that visited the Jardín. The analysis focuses on the season best documented by the music press, characterized by the primacy of "classical" concerts in its programs (1881-1882). The proposed hypothesis resides in the fact that this recreational space included a scenario tensened by different factors of the musical environment of Buenos Aires: the searches of particular agents to expand the presence of their repertoires and the participation of an audience that diversified in tastes and forms of consumption due to the active musical sociabilities in the city.

Keywords : cultural life; modernization; classical music; listening; group behaviour.

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