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Survival songs: Conchita Piquer's coplas and Franco's regime of terror / Stephanie Sieburth.
LIBRA ML3710.5 .S54 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sieburth, Stephanie, author.
- Series:
- Toronto Iberic ; 9.
- Toronto Iberic ; [9]
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Piquer, Conchita, 1908-1990--Criticism and interpretation.
- Piquer, Conchita.
- Piquer, Conchita, 1908-1990.
- Coplas--Spain--History and criticism.
- Coplas.
- Popular music--Spain--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- History.
- Psychological aspects.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Spain.
- Spain--History--1939-1975--Psychological aspects.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Conchita Piquer's coplas and Franco's regime of terror
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- Primarily in English. Includes some song lyrics in Spanish and English.
- Summary:
- Stephanie Sieburth's Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer, helped Republican sympathizers to survive the Franco regime's dehumanizing treatment following the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
- Contents:
- Camouflage : the psychology of survival in Franco's Spain
- An introduction to the Copla and its star performer
- Copying with terror through popular music : "La parrala" ("The wine lady")
- Paradise lost : "Ojos verdes" ("Green eyes") as ritual of separation
- "Tatuaje" ("Tattoo"), the unburied dead, and complicated grief
- The "other woman" : "romance de la otra" as ritual of marginalization and disenfranchised grief
- Reasserting personhood through popular song : "Romance de valentía" ("Ballad of bravery") and "La ruiseñora" ("The nightingale")
- When a radio song is the meaning of life : mending the torn fabric of identity through narrative, music, and interpretation.
- Notes:
- Series numbering from series title list in volume 37 of the series.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
- Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Winner, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781442644731
- 1442644737
- OCLC:
- 893721405
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