Spain in Our Ears

This book intends to reflect the variety and diversity of the musical responses that arose in favour of the Republic and against fascism during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), encompassing a wide range of music (classical music, film music, popular music), geographies (the US, the URSS, Britain, Germany) and individuals.

Autorentext

Igor Contreras Zubillaga is Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. A specialist of the relationships between music and politics in Franco and post-Franco Spain, he is the author of "Tant que les révolutions ressemblent à cela". L'avant-garde musicale sous Franco (2021).

Eva Moreda Rodríguez is Reader in Music at the University of Glasgow, UK. She specializes in the political history of music under Franco and the early history of recording technologies, with her latest monograph being Inventing the Recording. The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain (2021).

Inhalt

Introduction - 'Spain in our Ears: International Musical Responses in Support of the Republic during the Spanish Civil War' 1. 'Ol' Man River' at the Front: Paul Robeson, Music, and Blackness in Republican Spain 2. The Spanish War as Dress Rehearsal for Paul Robeson's Political Song 3. Some British Musical Responses to the Spanish Civil War 4. Victoire de la vie and L'Espagne vivra by Henri Cartier-Bresson: Two Different Musical Strategies at the Service of Republican Propaganda 5. Transnational Networks of Communist Musical Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War 6. Shostakovich's Music for Salute, Spain! Discoveries and Perspectives