This essay will compare two avant-gardes formed in 1920s Mexico as part of the processes derived from the Revolution that the country was just emerging from. Estridentismo (which can be roughly translated as “stridentism”) in visual arts and literature and Sonido 13 (“the 13th sound”) in music, were both immersed in the intellectual dynamics and currents of post-Revolutionary life, whose politics and culture portrayed the nation as a renewed historical actor now entering the world stage as an...