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Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo / Carol A. Hess.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hess, Carol A., author.
- Series:
- Oxford keynotes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Falla, Manuel de, 1876-1946. Amor brujo.
- Falla, Manuel de.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. Its showcases flamenco, the music of the Spanish Gitanos (gypsies). When it premiered in Spain, in 1915, it proved controversial: some Spanish critics applauded Falla for celebrating the music of a marginalized culture while others attacked his mixing of classical and popular idioms. El amor brujo has long intrigued arrangers and artists, however. It has been repeatedly reshaped, rearranged, and repackaged, either by Falla himself or by artists ranging from the concert pianist Artur Rubinstein to the super-showman Liberace or to various jazz and pop arrangers. El amor brujo has also figured in soundtracks, whether in frothy "movie musicals" from the 1940s, somber accounts of recent Spanish history, and films on anti-Black racism have drawn on El amor brujo, including one by Spike Lee. How did this rich trajectory come about? This book invites the reader to explore music, race, and class through El amor brujo"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- El amor brujo : A Convoluted History
- A Tangled Creation : The Beginnings of El amor brujo
- A New El amor brujo
- El Amor Brujo: Afterlife
- El amor brujo : Another Afterlife
- Recommended reading
- Appendix 1. Selected arrangements of El amor brujo
- Appendix 2. "Ritual Fire Dance" and Popular Music Recordings
- Appendix 3. El amor brujo: Selected Historic Recordings
- Appendix 4. El amor brujo and Film.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 24, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hess, Carol A. Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo
- ISBN:
- 9780197622865
- 0197622860
- 9780197622858
- 0197622852
- 9780197622841
- 0197622844
- OCLC:
- 1452828799
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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