A01=Elisabeth Le Guin
actors
Author_Elisabeth Le Guin
Category=AVLT
comic performance
cosmopolitan music
dance
dancers
engaging
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_music
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
folklore
folkloric nationalism
history
history of music
history of spain
madrid
music
musical
musical genres
musical populism
performing arts
politics of representation
public stages
satiric musical skit
social worlds
spain
spanish history
spanish music
the enlightenment
tonadilla
Product details
- ISBN 9780520276307
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2013
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book, the first major study of the tonadilla in English, examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together and traces the lasting influence this genre has had on the historiography of Spanish music. The tonadillas' careful constructions of musical populism provide a window onto the tensions among Enlightenment modernity, folkloric nationalism, and the politics of representation; their diverse, engaging, and cosmopolitan music is an invitation to reexamine tired old ideas of musical "Spanishness." Perhaps most radically of all, their satirical stance urges us to embrace the labile, paratextual nature of comic performance as central to the construction of history.
Elisabeth Le Guin is Professor of Musicology at UCLA and author of Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology (UC Press, 2006).
