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  • Music and Exile in Francoist Spain

    by Eva Rodriguez ...
    The Spanish Republican exile of 1939 impacted music as much as it did literature and academia, with well-known figures such as Adolfo Salazar and Roberto Gerhard forced to leave Spain. Exile is typically regarded as a discontinuity - an irreparable dissociation between the home country and the host country. Spanish exiled composers, however, were never totally cut off from the musical life of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Singing Zarzuela, 1896–1958

    Approaching Portamento and Musical Expression through Historical Recordings

    by Eva Moreda Rodríguez ...
    Series series Elements in Musical Theatre
    In the last few years, digitizations and reissues of historical recordings of Spanish zarzuela - from wax cylinders in the 1890s to long-play records in the 1950s - have revealed a range of contrasting vocal performance styles. By focusing on portamento, this Element sets the foundations for a contextually sensitive history of vocal performance practices in zarzuela. It takes stock of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Knitting the Semantic Web

    Edited by Jane Greenberg, Eva Méndez Rodriguez ...
    The Semantic Web, extends the popular, day-to-day Web, enabling computers and people to effectively work together by giving information well-defined meaning. Knitting the Semantic Web explains the interdisciplinary efforts underway to build a more library-like Web through “semantic knitting.” The book examines foundation activities and initiatives leading to standardized semantic metadata. These ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Early Sound Recordings

    Academic Research and Practice

    Edited by Eva Moreda Rodriguez, Inja Stanović ...
    The use of historical recordings as primary sources is relatively well established in both musicology and performance studies and has demonstrated how early recording technologies transformed the ways in which musicians and audiences engaged with music. This edited volume offers a timely snapshot of a wide range of contemporary research in the area of performance practice and performance histories ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Spain in Our Ears

    International Musical Responses in Support of the Republic during the Spanish Civil War

    Edited by Igor Contreras Zubillaga, Eva Moreda Rodriguez ...
    This book intends to reflect the variety and diversity of the musical responses that arose in favour of the Republic and against fascism during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), encompassing a wide range of music (classical music, film music, popular music), geographies (the US, the URSS, Britain, Germany) and individuals (from well-known figures such as Paul Robeson and Dimitri Shostakovich, to ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Neurosonology in Critical Care

    Monitoring the Neurological Impact of the Critical Pathology

    Edited by Camilo N. Rodríguez, Claudio Baracchini, Jorge H. Mejia-Mantilla, Marek Czosnyka, Jose I Suarez, László Csiba, Corina Puppo, Eva Bartels ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This textbook addresses the classical use of Transcranial Doppler (TCD) and Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS), focusing on the usefulness of neurological monitoring beyond classical acute brain injuries present in the daily intensive care medical practice. It encompasses a wide range of critical pathologies where neurological impact is part of clinical evolution, offering practical ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Inventing the Recording

    The Phonograph and National Culture in Spain, 1877-1914

    by Eva Moreda Rodríguez ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact. Through the analysis of a specific and unique national context, author Eva Moreda Rodríguez tells the stories of institutions and individuals in Spain and discusses the development of discourses and ideas in close connection with national concerns and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Phonographic Encounters

    Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890-1945

    Edited by Elodie A. Roy, Eva Moreda Rodriguez ...
    This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective, recovering the myriad sites, knowledge practices, identities and discourses which dynamically shaped early recording cultures. With case studies from China, Australia, the United States, Latin America, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy, Phonographic Encounters ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Higher Education in Music in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Björn Heile, Eva Moreda Rodriguez, Jane Stanley ...
    In this book, the contributors reconsider the fundamentals of Music as a university discipline by engaging with the questions: What should university study of music consist of? Are there any aspects, repertoires, pieces, composers and musicians that we want all students to know about? Are there any skills that we expect them to be able to master? How can we guarantee the relevance, rigour and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain

    by Eva Moreda Rodriguez ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was made available to the public. While music critics and journalists were by no means free from government control and direction, ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain

    Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula

    by Paulo Ferreira de Castro, Igor Contreras Zubillaga, Vera Marques Alves, Eva Moreda Rodríguez, Leonor Losa, Pedro Moreira, Hugo Castro, Diego García-Peinazo, Ricardo Andrade, Héctor Fouce, Fernán del Val, Josep Martí, Cristina Sánchez-Carretero, Cristina Cruces Roldán ...
    How music embodies and contributes to historical and contemporary nationalismWhat 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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Enrique Granados

    Poet of the Piano

    by Walter Aaron Clark ...
    Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1916, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing, and they perished in the waters of the English Channel. His death was mourned on both sides of the ... Read more

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