| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Toronto Iberic |
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Toronto Iberic.
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| Contents |
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 valentia' ('Ballad of Bravery') and 'La Ruisenora' ('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 |
| Summary |
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) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Includes some song lyrics, in Spanish and English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Piquer, Conchita, 1908-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Piquer, Conchita, 1908-1990 fast |
| Subject |
Coplas -- Spain -- History and criticism
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Coplas -- Spain -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Popular music -- Spain -- History and criticism
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Popular music -- Spain -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Psychic trauma -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
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Political persecution -- Spain -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Psychic trauma
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Popular music -- Psychological aspects
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Political persecution -- Psychological aspects
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Coplas
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Popular music
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Psychological aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Spain -- History -- 1939-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126139
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| Subject |
Spain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442661448 |
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1442661445 |
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