Llano, Samuel ~ Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930 Introduction The demographic and socioeconomic makeup of large industrial(izing) centers in Europe were rapidly changing during late 19th, early 20th C. Population growth and rural-to-urban migration led to rising levels of crime, poverty, and epidemics. In Madrid, measures to control these issues were largely and consistently inefficient, partly due to the general mistrust in the… Read More
Peiró, Eva Woods ~ White Gypsies On the surface, and according to mainstream scholarship (the little that exists) on 20th century musical films in Spain, folkloricas were nothing but fascist propaganda, based on and endlessly propagating a range of cliched narratives, performances, and myths about Spanishness, femininity, honor, drama, and comedy. No beef with this reading—on the surface, they do appear… Read More
Alsonso, Celsa ~ Musica y Construccion Nacional en Espana: Teatro Muiscal, Cine y Musica Popular (1900-1936) Author begins from the premise that, in the Spain of the turn of the 20th century, theatre and cinema are places of convergence between what they regard as competing sentiments between the national and the cosmopolitan, the traditional (regional) and the modern (European). From as early as the Golden era, Spanish theatre has had a… Read More