Title: Survival Songs
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).
Subjects: Popular music, history and criticism, Music, psychological aspects, Psychic trauma, Political persecution, Spain, history, Coplas, History and criticism, Popular music, Criticism and interpretation, History, Psychological aspects, Piquer, Conchita,, Critique et interprétation, Histoire et critique, Aspect psychologique, Histoire, Musique populaire