Music and the Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War has been the most important, decisive and traumatic event in contemporary Spain, but also one of the most iconic events in the recent history of the Western world. However, musicology has not devoted a great deal of attention to the war of 1936-1939 until very recently. This volume is the first collective book dedicated to music and the Spanish Civil War.

The contributions, drawn from musicologists, historians and anthropologists from Spain, Mexico, Australia, and the United States, explore the songs at the front, war soundscapes, propaganda and music policies, censorship, music in prisons, different music genres, exiled composers and critics, musical diplomacy, memory, and Spanish Civil War as a topic in contemporary music.

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List of contributors

Introduction: Music Historiography and the Spanish Civil War (Iván Iglesias, Gemma Pérez Zalduondo)

1. The Dispute for the "People" and Its Songs: A Sonic Battle at the Front and Rearguard during the Spanish Civil War (Luis Díaz Viana, Ignacio Fernández de Mata)

2. Composing for the Francoist Side during the Spanish Civil War (Igor Contreras Zubillaga)

3. Orchestral Music in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) (Yolanda F. Acker)

4. The Madrid Conservatory during the Spanish Civil War and the Immediate Post-War Years: Student Movements, Conflict and Violence (Atenea Fernández Higuero)

5. Sounds of a City in the Rearguard: Music in Seville during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) (Olimpia García-López)

6. Anthems, Identity, and Mobilization in the Francoist Rearguard: Valladolid, 1936-1939 (Nelly Álvarez)

7. Between Heaven and Hell: The Career of Guitarist Celedonio Romero during and after the Spanish Civil War (Walter Aaron Clark)

8. Republicans as Well as Musicians: Management and Transfer to Mexico of Refugees in France (1939-1942) (Consuelo Carredano)

9. "Un spectable guerrier." Traditional Dance in the Spanish Pavillion at the International Exhibition in Paris (1937) (Beatriz Martínez del Fresno)

10. Music for the Screen during the Spanish Civil War (Lidia López)

11. Silence, Sound and Imaginaries: Soundscape and Musical Programming in the Funerary Ceremonies of José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1939) (Gemma Pérez Zalduondo)

12. Repression and Redemption: Music in the Prisons of the Early Francoist Period (Belén Pérez Castillo)

13. Traces in the Stone: The Civil War and Music in 21st Century Spain (Pedro Ordóñez Eslava)