Survival Songs
Subtitle: Conchita Piquer's Coplas and Franco's Regime of Terror
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781442644731
Subjects: Popular music, history and criticism; Music, psychological aspects; Psychic trauma; Political persecution; Spain, history
Description: 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).