Discordant Notes: Marginality and Social Control in Madrid, 1850-1930

ISBN-13: 9780199392469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Samuel Llano

Opis

Based on a study of Madrid (1850-1930), Discordant Notes argues that sound, noise, street music and flamenco have played a key role in structuring the transition to modernity by helping to negotiate social attitudes and legal responses to fundamental problems such as poverty, insalubrity, and crime.

Recenzje

A fascinating discussion of how the labeling of certain forms of music as noise in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Madrid contributed to the discourses (and practice) of social control. A major contribution to the emerging field of Spanish sound studies.

O autorze

Samuel Llano is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Spanish Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. He specialises in the music of nineteenth and twentieth century Spain, urban studies and transnationalism. His first book, Whose Spain?: Negotiating 'Spanish Music' in Paris, 1908-1929 (OUP, 2012) received the Robert M. Stevenson Award of the American Musicological Society for outstanding scholarship in Iberian and Latin American music.