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<p>Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads show a reordering—but not an abandonment—of classic Aztec values. In the careful reading of John Bierhorst, the ballads reveal in no uncertain terms the pre-conquest Aztec belief in the warrior's para
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- Author
- John Bierhorst
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292783065
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Music, History, Ethnomusicology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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