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Popular Music in Spanish Cinema
About this book
Popular Music in Spanish Cinema analyses the aesthetics and stylistic development of soundtracks from national productions, considering how political instability and cultural diversity in Spain determined the ways of making art and managing culture.
As a pioneering study in this field, the chronologically structured approach of this book provides readers with a complete overview of Spanish music and connects it to the complex historical events that conditioned Spanish culture throughout the 20th century to the present day, from the Second Republic, the Spanish Civil war, and the dictatorship through to democracy. The book enables an understanding of the relationships between the recording and film production industries, the construction of collective imagination, the formulation of new stereotypes, semiotic meanings within film music and the musical exchanges between national and international cinema.
This volume is an essential read for students and academics in the field of musicology, ethnomusicology and history as well as those interested in the study of diverse musical styles such as copla, zarzuela, flamenco, jazz, foxtrot, pop and rock and how they have been used in Spanish films throughout history.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Popular music in Spanish cinema
- Part I The Second Republic: Spanish popular songs take to the screen
- Part II Evasion and entertainment: Jazz, pop, and musical films during civil war and Franco's dictatorship years
- Part III Building bridges towards modernity: Copla and Flamenco revisited in the search for a Spanish national identity
- Part IV Democracy and change of century: New musical perspectives and nostalgia forgathered
- Part V 21st-Century Spain: Sonic influences and transmedia productions
- Glossary
- Index