Survival Songs : : Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror / / Stephanie Sieburth.
How can a song help the hungry and persecuted to survive? 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 follo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Iberic
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Index