The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was made available to the public. While music critics and journalists were by no means free from government control and direction, music criticism under the Franco regime did not adhere to any official party "line" on music. Indeed, music criticism often demonstrated a diversity of opinion and ideological belief that runs counter to many common assumptions about journalism under fascist regimes. In Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain, Eva Moreda Rodríguez presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the diverse and often divergent writings of music critics in the early years of the Franco regime. Although she does not shy away from the thorny issues of propaganda and censorship, Moreda Rodríguez considers other factors that shaped the journalistic discourse surrounding music. Political rivalries, ideological diversity within musical "conservatism," as well as the explicit and implicit expectations of the Franco government all influenced the diverse landscape of music criticism. Moreover, the central issues that music critics were concerned with during Francoism's early years-modernist music, Spanish early music, traditional music, and music's role in organizing the state-had already been at the center of debates within the press for several decades. Carefully selecting contemporary writings by well-known music critics, Moreda Rodríguez contextualizes music criticism written during the Franco regime within the broader intellectual history of Spain from the nineteenth century onwards. The first critical study of the musical press of Francoist Spain in the broader cultural and social fabric of the regime, Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain is an essential resource for musicologists interested in 20th-century Spain, as well as Hispanists interested in the early Franco regime.

Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)

Arts & Photography

Moreda Rodríguez, Eva

Music

Oxford University Press

Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact. Through the analysis of a specific and unique national context, author Eva Moreda Rodriguez tells the stories of institutions and individuals inSpain and discusses the development of discourses and ideas in close connection with national concerns and debates, all while paying close attention to original recordings from this era.The book starts with the arrival in Spain of notices about Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877, followed by the first demonstrations of the invention (1878-1882) by scientists and showmen. These demonstrations greatly stimulated the imagination of scientists, journalists and playwrights,who spent the rest of the 1880s speculating about the phonograph and its potential to revolutionize society once it was properly developed and marketed. The book then moves on to analyse the 'traveling phonographs' and salones fonograficos of the 1890s and early 1900s, with phonographs being paradedaround Spain and exhibited in group listening sessions in theatres, private homes and social spaces pertaining to different social classes. Finally, the book covers the development of an indigenous recording industry dominated by the so-called gabinetes fonograficos, small businesses that soldimported phonographs, produced their own recordings, and shaped early discourses about commercial phonography and the record as a commodity between 1896 and 1905.

Inventing the Recording: The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914 (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)

Singing Zarzuela, 1896–1958: Approaching Portamento and Musical Expression through Historical Recordings (Elements in Musical Theatre)

Cambridge University Press

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Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

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Bandas de música: contextos interpretativos y repertorios

Biographies & Memoirs

Eli Rodríguez, Victoria

Matía Polo, Inmaculada

Rincón Rodríguez, Nicolás

Ferreiro Carballo, David

Asensi Silvestre, Elvira

Barros Presas, Nuria

Ramón Salinas, Jorge

Zavala Arnal, Carmen María

Santodomingo Molina, Antonio

Santodomingo Jiménez, Andrea

Ríos Muñoz, Miguel Ángel

Ahulló Hermano, Ramón

Galiano-Díaz, Juan Carlos

Oriola Velló, Frederic

Velásquez Ospina, Juan Fernando

Santamaría Cadaval, Estíbaliz

Montes Abalde, Ángel Antonio

Jurado Luque, Javier

Sanz García, José Miguel

Martínez Babiloni, Daniel

Astruells Moreno, Salvador

Cancela Montes, Beatriz

Costa Vázquez, Luis

Arts & Literature

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