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    Music, Race, and the Sonic Architecture of Colonial Morocco

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    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Any study of colonial Morocco (1912-56) presents unique and compelling challenges due to the simultaneous presence in its territory of two foreign powers, France and Spain. ... Read more

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    Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula

    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

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  • Discordant Notes

    Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930

    by Samuel Llano ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts. Recent decades have seen a surge of interest on the effects of sound the urban space and its population. These studies analyse how sound generates identities that are often fragmentary and mutually conflicting. They also explore the ways in which sound triggers campaigns against ... Read more

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  • Whose Spain?

    Negotiating "Spanish Music" in Paris, 1908-1929

    by Samuel Llano ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition. However, as Samuel Llano argues in Whose Spain?, perceptions and representations of Spanish musical identities changed in the early twentieth century, ... Read more

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