Title: Survival songs :
Authors: Sieburth, Stephanie
Date: 2014
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Physical description: xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: Stephanie Sieburth's Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer, helped Republican sympathizers to survive the Franco regime's dehumanizing treatment following the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
Contents: Camouflage : the psychology of survival in Franco's Spain -- An introduction to the Copla and its star performer -- Copying with terror through popular music : "La parrala" ("The wine lady") -- Paradise lost : "Ojos verdes" ("Green eyes") as ritual of separation -- "Tatuaje" ("Tattoo"), the unburied dead, and complicated grief -- The "other woman" : "romance de la otra" as ritual of marginalization and disenfranchised grief -- Reasserting personhood through popular song : "Romance de valentía" ("Ballad of bravery") and "La ruiseñora" ("The nightingale") -- When a radio song is the meaning of life : mending the torn fabric of identity through narrative, music, and interpretation.
Subject headings (LCSH): Coplas--Spain--History and criticism.; Coplas--Spain--Psychological aspects--History--20th century.; Piquer, Conchita, 1908-1990--Criticism and interpretation.; Political persecution--Spain--Psychological aspects--History--20th century.; Popular music--Spain--History and criticism; Popular music--Spain--Psychological aspects--History--20th century.; Psychic trauma--Spain--History--20th century.; Spain--History--1939-1975--Psychological aspects.; Spain--History--1939-1975.