Dissonances of Modernity Music, Text, and Performance in Modern Spain

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gómez-Castellano, Irene.

Series:

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Social aspects.

Music--Social aspects--Spain--History.

Music.

Spain.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of North Carolina Press

Summary:

"Dissonances of Modernity illuminates the ways in which music, as an artifact, a practice, and a discourse redefines established political, social, gender, and cultural conventions in Modern Spain. Using the notion of dissonance as a point of departure, the volume builds on the insightful approaches to the study of music and society offered by previous analyses in regards to the central position they give to identity as a socially and historically constructed concept, and continues their investigation on the interdependence of music and society in the Iberian Peninsula. While other serious studies of the intersections of music and literature in Spain have focused on contemporary usage, Dissonances of Modernity looks back across the centuries, seeking the role of music in the very formation of identity in the peninsula. The volume's historical horizon reaches from the nineteenth-century War of Africa to the Catalan working class revolutions and Enric Granados' central role in Catalan identity; from Francisco Barbieri's Madrid to the Wagnerian's influence in Benito Pérez Galdós' prose; and from the predicaments surrounding national anthems to the use of the figure of Carmen in Francoist' cinema. This volume is a timely scholarly addition that contemplates not only a broad corpus that innovatively comprises popular and high culture--zarzuelas, choruses of industrial workers, opera, national anthems--but also their inter-dependence in the artists' creativity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Orchestrating war: burlesque musical pieces on the war of Africa (1859-1860) / Ana Rueda

Massive harmonies / Aurélie Vialette

Lands without a song: autonomous communities' quest for an anthem / Jorge Marí

Remaking the ready-made Espagnolade: Carmen in Spanish cinema / José Colmeiro

Enric Granados and his Catalan literary associations / Walter Clark

Music, text, and performing cultural identity in Francisco Barbieri's (1823-1894) El barberillo de Lavapiés (1874) / Yuri Porras

"Philarmonic furor" and the dual role of music in nineteenth-century Spain / David T. Gies

Social typology and costumbrismo in the tonadilla escénica / Lucy D. Harney

Falla's Harpsichord concerto and Lorca's Don Perlimplín / Nelson R. Orringer

The mute muse / Lou Charnon-Deutsch

Between sublime performance and filthy lucre: the voice of Serafina Gorgheggi in Su único hijo by Leopoldo Alas / Margot Versteeg

Galdós's Gloria: tweaking the paradigm of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer / Thomas R. Franz

The blind street singer in the novels of Galdós and the short stories of his contemporaries / Vernon Chamberlin.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908587-6-4

979-88-908587-7-1

1-4696-5192-0

OCLC:

1242875778