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In The 1920s, Mexican Composer Julián Carrillo (1875-1965) Developed A Microtonal System He Metaphorically Called El Sonido 13 (the 13th Sound). Although His Pioneering Role As One Of The First Proponents Of Microtonality Gave Him A Cult Figure Status Among European Avant-garde Circles In The 1960s And 1970s, His Music And Legacy Have Remained Largely Ignored By Scholars And Critics. This Book Explores His Ideas Not Only In Relation To The Historical Moments Of Their Inception But Also In Relation To The Various Cultural Projects That Kept Them Alive And Resignified Them Into The 21st Century. Introduction. A Cultural Complex's Non-linear Story -- Imitation, Ideology, Performativity, And Carrillo's Symphony No. 1 -- Y Hermosísima Patria Será: National And Post-national Transfigurations In Matilde -- Modernism, Teleology, And Identity: Toward A Cultural Understanding Of Early Sonido 13 -- Reading Carrillo: The Future That Never Was -- Continuities And Discontinuities In An Imaginary Cycle: The Thirteen String Quartets -- Experimentalism, Mythology, The Intermundane, And Sonido 13 After Julián Carrillo -- Estrangement, Performance, And Performativity: Musicking Sonido 13. Alejandro L. Madrid. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.