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The Frightful Stage
In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class's time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of nineteenth-century political theater censorship at a time, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when the European population was becoming increasingly politically active.
Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment
This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history. Studies on the history of urban popular culture and the entertainment industries increasingly engage with the European or global circulation of genres, actors, and shows, especially during the period of massive growth and expansion of the sector from the 1870s to the 1930s. Nevertheless, a large part of this research remains focused on exchanges between Western and Central European, and North American metropolises. To provide a fuller picture of the emergence and cross-border transfer of different genres of popular culture, this volume investigates Northern, East Central, and Southern European cities and their relations ...
Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain
How music embodies and contributes to historical and contemporary nationalism What does music in Portugal and Spain reveal about the relationship between national and regional identity building? How do various actors use music to advance nationalism? How have state and international heritage regimes contributed to nationalist and regionalist projects? In this collection, contributors explore these and other essential questions from a range of interdisciplinary vantage points. The essays pay particular attention to the role played by the state in deciding what music represents Portuguese or Spanish identity. Case studies examine many aspects of the issue, including local recording networks, s...
Flamenco Nation
How did flamenco—a song and dance form associated with both a despised ethnic minority in Spain and a region frequently derided by Spaniards—become so inexorably tied to the country’s culture? Sandie Holguín focuses on the history of the form and how reactions to the performances transformed from disgust to reverance over the course of two centuries. Holguín brings forth an important interplay between regional nationalists and image makers actively involved in building a tourist industry. Soon they realized flamenco performances could be turned into a folkloric attraction that could stimulate the economy. Tourists and Spaniards alike began to cultivate flamenco as a representation of the country's national identity. This study reveals not only how Spain designed and promoted its own symbol but also how this cultural form took on a life of its own.
The Galician Works of Ramón Del Valle-Inclán
Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) was undoubtedly the most controversial literary figure of his generation. Whilst his genius was recognised by fellow writers, the reading public was slow to accept his work, and his theatre taxed directors and audiences alike. One of the harshest criticisms levelled against him concerned his use of repetition. This study shows how the reuse, recycling and development of material becomes one of the hallmarks of Valle-Inclán's writing during the first three decades of his literary career, linking one genre with another and blurring the borders between different aesthetics. The repetition of themes and motifs, characters and stylistic devices reveals an und...
Etre espagnol
Les manifestations de la conscience espagnole, au cours des siècles, se sont avérées d'une étonnante solidité. La quête de l'« Être espagnol » (dans ses deux aspects complémentaires, du ser et de l'estar) est indissociable des contradictions qui l'habitent. L'identité nationale naît à l'intersection du culturel et du politique, les deux tensions étant toujours imbriquées. Cette identité ne peut jamais faire l'économie de ce qui se passe au-delà des Pyrénées, en France d'abord, mais aussi en Italie, en Allemagne, aux USA, etc. Pour se connaître, l'Espagnol a besoin des miroirs que lui tendent les autres nations. Les tentatives peuvent viser l'assimilation, les manifestations exprimer un rejet brutal, la référence à « l'étranger » est constante, surtout aux périodes charnières de l'histoire lorsque la conscience nationale est la plus tourmentée et la plus conflictuelle. Il vaut la peine de plonger dans ces conflits, à la recherche d'une lumière. L'étendue du champ historique, considéré sur plus de trois siècles, féconde l'analyse de l'aujourd'hui, tandis que le croisement des méthodes avive le regard et lui donne sa profondeur.
Le métissage culturel en Espagne
Etude d'ensemble analysant les influences étrangères dans les écrits littéraires, les mouvements politiques, révolutionnaires et les manières de penser en Espagne du 18e siècle au milieu du 20e.
La revolución, la política moderna y el individuo
Richard Hocquellet desempeñó un papel importante en la renovación historiográfica del bicentenario de la Guerra de la Independencia. Sin embargo, una parte considerable de su trabajo era de difícil acceso para el público castellano por haberse escrito en francés. Algunas de sus conferencias tampoco habían sido publicadas. El presente libro ofrece una selección de estos textos y permite observar la trayectoria intelectual de un investigador fecundo, innovador y exigente que, después de una aportación magistral a la comprensión de los mecanismos que entre 1808 y 1810 llevaron hasta la revolución liberal de Cádiz, consagró los últimos años de su vida a un estudio muy novedoso sobre los actores políticos de 1808 hasta la revolución liberal de los años treinta del siglo XIX.
