Dissonances of modernity : music text and performance in modern Spain Orchestrating war: burlesque musical pieces on the war of Africa (1859 1860) Ana Rueda Massive harmonies Aurélie Vialette Lands without a song: autonomous communities quest for an anthem Jorge Marí Remaking the ready made Espagnolade: Carmen in Spanish cinema José Colmeiro Enric Granados and his Catalan literary associations Walter Clark Music text and performing cultural identity in Francisco Barbieris (1823 1894) El barberillo de Lavapiés (1874) Yuri Porras “Philarmonic furor” and the dual role of music in nineteenth century Spain David T. Gies Social typology and costumbrismo in the tonadilla escénica Lucy D. Harney Fallas Harpsichord concerto and Lorcas Don Perlimplín Nelson R. Orringer The mute muse Lou Charnon Deutsch Between sublime performance and filthy lucre: the voice of Serafina Gorgheggi in Su único hijo by Leopoldo Alas Margot Versteeg Galdóss Gloria: tweaking the paradigm of Wagners Der fliegende Holländer Thomas R. Franz The blind street singer in the novels of Galdós and the short stories of his contemporaries Vernon Chamberlin. Dissonances of Modernity illuminates the ways in which music as an artifact a practice and a discourse redefines established political social gender and cultural conventions in Modern Spain. Using the notion of dissonance as a point of departure the volume builds on the insightful approaches to the study of music and society offered by previous analyses in regards to the central position they give to identity as a socially and historically constructed concept and continues their investigation on the interdependence of music and society in the Iberian Peninsula. While other serious studies of the intersections of music and literature in Spain have focused on contemporary usage Dissonances of Modernity looks back across the centuries seeking the role of music in the very formation of identity in the peninsula. The volumes historical horizon reaches from the nineteenth century War of Africa to the Catalan working class revolutions and Enric Granados central role in Catalan identity; from Francisco Barbieris Madrid to the Wagnerians influence in Benito Pérez Galdós prose; and from the predicaments surrounding national anthems to the use of the figure of Carmen in Francoist cinema. This volume is a timely scholarly addition that contemplates not only a broad corpus that innovatively comprises popular and high culture zarzuelas choruses of industrial workers opera national anthems but also their inter dependence in the artists creativity