Stephanie A. Sieburth

Survival Songs

Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror

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Produktbeschreibung

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 (1936-39).

Produktdetails

• Toronto Iberic
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781442644731
• ISBN-10: 1442644737
• Artikelnr.: 37599606

Autorenporträt

By Stephanie Sieburth

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conchita Piquer’s Coplas as Psychotherapy
Chapter One: Camouflage: The Psychology of Survival in Franco’s Spain
Chapter Two: An Introduction to the Copla and its Star Performer
Chapter Three: Coping with Terror Through Popular Music: ‘La Parrala’ (‘The
Wine Lady’)
Chapter Four: Paradise Lost: ‘Ojos verdes’ (‘Green Eyes’) as Ritual of
Separation
Chapter Five: ‘Tatuaje’ (‘Tattoo’), the Unburied Dead, and Complicated
Grief
Chapter Six: The ‘Other Woman’: ‘Romance de la otra’ as Ritual of
Marginalization and Disenfranchised Grief
Chapter Seven: Reasserting Personhood through Popular Song: ‘Romance de
valentía’ (‘Ballad of Bravery’) and ‘La Ruiseñora’ (‘The Nightingale’)
Chapter Eight: When a Radio Song is the Meaning of Life: Mending the Torn
Fabric of Identity through Narrative, Music and Interpretation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography