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Popular Music in Spanish Cinema book cover

1st Edition

Popular Music in Spanish Cinema

Edited By Lidia López Gómez Copyright 2024
224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Popular Music in Spanish Cinema analyses the aesthetics and stylistic development of soundtracks from national productions, considering how political instability and cultural diversity in Spain determined the ways of making art and managing culture. As a pioneering study in this field, the chronologically structured approach of this book provides readers with a complete overview of Spanish... Read more

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Introduction

LIDIA LÓPEZ GÓMEZ

The Second Republic: Spanish popular songs take to the screen.

  1. Cinema and National imaginary: the musical representation of Andalusia in films at the beginning of the 20th century.

    2. CONSUELO PÉREZ-COLODRERO

  2. Copla and Flamenco in Spanish Republican cinema: the cantaor Angelillo and the director Luis Buñuel in the film production company Filmófono.

    3. CELSA ALONSO

  3. Forces of Freedom: Carmen Amaya in La Hija de Juan Simón (1935).

    4. K. MEIRA GOLDBERG

    Evasion and entertainment. Jazz, Pop, and musical films during Civil war and Franco’s Dictatorship years.

  4. From Spain to Germany (and back to Spain): songs in the Spanish musical films of the 1930s.

    5. ENRIQUE ENCABO

  5. Singing in Misery: Jazz and Popular Music in Spanish Postwar Comedies.

    6. JULIO ARCE

  6. Popular music and ideology in the Spanish musical films of the 1950s.

    7. JOAQUÍN LÓPEZ GONZÁLEZ

    Building Bridges towards modernity. Copla and Flamenco revisited in the search for a Spanish national identity.

  7. Pop Music in the Spanish musical cinema of the 1960s.

    8. TERESA FRAILE

  8. The kids take to the screen. A review of the formulas used in cine con niño and its main protagonists in 1960s musical cinema.

    9. DIANA DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ

  9. Canción española in cinema: Manolo Escobar, between tradition and modernity.

    10. JOSEP LLUÍS I FALCÓ AND YAIZA BERMÚDEZ CUBAS

    Democracy and change of Century. New musical perspectives and nostalgia forgathered.

  10. From mythification to eroticism: copla on the big screen.

    11. INMACULADA MATÍA POLO

  11. The spirit of (almost) forgotten Spain: music and women in the early films of Pedro Almodóvar

    12. LAURA MIRANDA

    21st century Spain. Sonic influences and transmedia productions.

  12. Through the eyes of the new Century. Music and collective memory in contemporary films set in the Spanish Civil war.

    13. LIDIA LÓPEZ GÓMEZ

  13. Pop songs in Spanish musical films during the 21st Century.

    14. EDUARDO VIÑUELA

  14. Exploring transmedia storytelling through original songs in award-winning Spanish films.

CANDE SÁNCHEZ OLMOS

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Index

Biography

Lidia López Gómez is Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her main fields of research include audiovisual analysis, film music and music in video games.

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