Survival Songs: Conchita Piquer´s ´Coplas´ and Franco´s Regime of Terror
Stephanie Sieburth
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Hardback. 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). Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; AVG; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
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 following the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). Piquer’s coplas were sad, bitter stories of fallen women, but they offered a way for the defeated to cope with chronic terror, grief, and trauma in the years known as the “time of silence.”
Drawing on the observations of clinical psychotherapy, Sieburth explores the way in which listening to Piquer’s coplas enabled ... Read more
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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Toronto Iberic
Condition
New
Weight
559g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442644731
SKU
V9781442644731
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About Stephanie Sieburth
Stephanie Sieburth is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University.
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