The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music

Laura Miranda

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032006345
• eBook ISBN: 9781040101360
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music provides a significant contribution to the research and history of Spanish film music, exploring the interdependence and ways in which discourses of sound and vision are constructed dialogically in Spanish cinema, with contributions from leading international researchers from Spain, the USA, the UK, France and Germany.

Offering a multifocal and multidisciplinary study between related areas such as music studies, film studies and Spanish cultural studies, this book is divided into four sections, covering the early years of Spanish cinema; the 1940s and 1950s in Spanish cinema—the first decades of the Franco dictatorship; the importance of Fraga Iribarne's slogan, "Spain is different, " to promote Spain's new openness to the world in the 1960s and 1970s; and Spanish cinema since the arrival of democracy in 1978, including discussion of contemporary Spanish cinema.

The growing interest in Spanish cinema calls for the publication of studies about the role of music in its political and socio-cultural framework. This is therefore a valuable text for music and film scholars and professionals, university undergraduates and music conservatory students.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Introduction: Past, Present and Future in Spanish Film Music Studies
• PART 1 First steps in sound in the 1930s
• PART 2 Music, ideology and power in the cinema of the early years of Francoism
• PART 3 New (and old) rhythms from the aperturismo of the 1960s
• PART 4 Musical glocalisms in democratic Spain from the late twentieth century
• Index