Zarzuela

Author : Janet Lynn Sturman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Zarzuela
ISBN : 0252025962

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Zarzuela by Janet Lynn Sturman Pdf

Once the most popular form of Spanish entertainment short of the bullfight, the zarzuela boasts a long history of bridging the categories of classical and popular art. It is neither opera nor serious drama, yet it requires both trained singers and good actors. The content is neither purely folkloric nor high art; it is too popular for some and too classical for others. In Zarzuela, Janet L. Sturman assesses the political as well as the musical significance of this chameleon of music-drama. Sturman traces the zarzuela's colorful history from its seventeenth-century origins as a Spanish court entertainment to its adaptation in Spain's colonial outposts in the New World. She examines Cuba's pivotal role in transmitting the zarzuela to Latin America and the Caribbean and draws distinctions among the ways in which various Spanish-speaking communities have reformulated zarzuela, combining elements of the Spanish model with local characters, music, dances, and political perspectives. The settings Sturman considers include Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the American cities of El Paso, Miami, and New York. Sturman also demonstrates how the zarzuela plays a role in defining American urban ethnicity. She offers a glimpse into two longstanding theaters in New York, Repertorio Espa ol and the Thalia Spanish Theatre, that have fostered the tradition of zarzuela, mounting innovative productions and cultivating audiences. Sturman constructs a profile of the audience that supports modern zarzuela and examines the extensive personal network that sustains it financially. Just as the zarzuela afforded an opportunity in the past for Spaniards to assert their individuality in the face of domination by Italian and central European musical standards, it continues to stand for a distinctive Hispanic legacy. Zarzuela provides a major advance in recognizing the enduring cultural and social significance of this resilient and adaptable genre.

Author : Susan Thomas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music and race
ISBN : 9780252033315

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Cuban Zarzuela by Susan Thomas Pdf

On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana's Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened glycerin and her body clad in the tight pants, boots, and riding jacket of a coachman. Standing alongside a gilded carriage and a live horse, the blackfaced, cross-dressed actress sang the premiere of Eliseo Grenet's tango-congo, "Ay Mama Ines." The crowd went wild. Montaner's performance cemented "Ay Mama Ines" as one of the classics in the Cuban repertoire, but more importantly, the premiere heralded the birth of the Cuban zarzuela, a new genre of music theater that over the next fifteen years transformed popular entertainment on the island. Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage marks the first comprehensive study of the Cuban zarzuela, a Spanish-language light opera with spoken dialogue that originated in Spain but flourished in Havana during the early twentieth century. Created by musicians and managers to fill a growing demand for family entertainment, the zarzuela evidenced the emerging economic and cultural power of Cuba's white female bourgeoisie to influence the entertainment industry. Susan Thomas explores zarzuela's function as a pedagogical tool, through which composers, librettists, and business managers hoped to control their troupes and audiences by presenting desirable and problematic images of both feminine and masculine identities. Zarzuela was, Thomas explains, "anti-feminist but pro-feminine, its plots focusing on female protagonists and its musical scores showcasing the female voice." Focusing on character types such as the mulata, the negrito, and the ingenue, Thomas uncovers the zarzuela's richly textured relationship to social constructs of race, class, and especially gender.

Author : Christopher Webber
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461673903

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The Zarzuela Companion by Christopher Webber Pdf

It has been said that zarzuela means to Spain what operetta means to Vienna, Offenbach to Paris, Gilbert and Sullivan to London, and the musical to Broadway. Zarzuela is Spain's unique contribution to lyric theatre, a mixture of spoken and sung drama with a complex history extending over four centuries. The Zarzuela Companion is a comprehensive guide to zarzuela's most popular and romantic works written after 1850, with chapters devoted to the major Spanish zarzuela composers, writers and singers. Complete synopses of all sixty works selected are delivered at the level of detail necessary for non-Spanish speakers to follow along with ease. The book also features special sections on the history of the genre, and on the parallel Catalan and Cuban zarzuela traditions. A foreword by Plácido Domingo, a selected discography with current catalog reference numbers, a brief bilingual bibliography and glossary of Spanish terms make this book indispensable for the newcomer and aficionado alike.

Author : Doreen Fernandez
Publisher : Ateneo University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9715501885

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Palabas by Doreen Fernandez Pdf

Author : Willi Apel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674375017

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Harvard Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel Pdf

Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.

Author : Vincent J. Cincotta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114942746

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Zarzuela by Vincent J. Cincotta Pdf

This exhaustive work is a complete reference guide to Zarzuela, the Spanish Lyric Theatre. Includes history, biographies of composers and librettists, plot synopses, discography, bibliography, chronological tables and a full index of titles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9712324133

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Introduction to Humanities' 1998 Ed. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Doreen Fernandez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Hiligaynon language
ISBN : UOM:39015049757654

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The Iloilo Zarzuela, 1903-1930 by Doreen Fernandez Pdf

Author : Yanira Idalia Urquhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Zarzuela
ISBN : UCSC:32106011247035

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The Development of the Zarzuela and the Performance Practice of the Género Chico by Yanira Idalia Urquhart Pdf

Author : Walter Aaron Clark,William Craig Krause
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195313703

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Federico Moreno Torroba by Walter Aaron Clark,William Craig Krause Pdf

The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career which spanned six decades, and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals. Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts explores not only his life and work, but also the relationship of his music to the cultural milieu in which he moved.

Author : William M. Bussey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009426423

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French and Italian Influence on the Zarzuela by William M. Bussey Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Folk literature
ISBN : 9712315649

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Readings in Philippine Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah K. Whitfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350316621

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Reframing the Musical by Sarah K. Whitfield Pdf

This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture and identity. Bringing together contributions from cultural, American and theatre studies for the first time, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on musical theatre history, calling for a radical and inclusive new approach. By questioning ideas about what the musical is about and who it for, this groundbreaking book retells the story of the musical, prioritising previously neglected voices to reshape our understanding of the form. Timely and engaging, this is required reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of musical theatre. It offers an intersectional approach which will also be invaluable for theatre practitioners.

Author : Raymond Calcraft,Elizabeth Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000479317

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Joaquín Rodrigo by Raymond Calcraft,Elizabeth Matthews Pdf

Joaquín Rodrigo, Spain's leading composer of the second half of the twentieth century, was also a writer of considerable distinction. In addition to his 170 compositions in almost every musical form, including the world-famous Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra, he published articles and critical reviews throughout his working life. This volume makes available Rodrigo's writings to English-speaking readers throughout the world. The generous selection reveals an outstanding critical mind, equally illuminating on the main developments in the history of classical music and its most important composers, from Bach and Mozart to Verdi and Puccini, as well as Rodrigo's contemporaries. Rodrigo’s writings also cover many aspects of the culture and music of Spain and the country's major composers, as well as being an invaluable guide to an understanding and appreciation of Rodrigo's own works. The composer's style of writing is extremely varied, by turns incisive, eloquent, poetic, or delightfully humorous. Given the worldwide fame and popularity of his music, the availability in English of a large number of the composer's many articles and critical reviews will be of the greatest interest to musicians, scholars, music critics, and music-lovers alike.

Author : Uche Onyebadi
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781648894718

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Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe. Volume 1. by Uche Onyebadi Pdf

'Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe' uniquely expands the frontiers of political communication by simultaneously focusing on content (political messaging) and platform (music and entertainment). As a compendium of valuable research work, it provides rich insights into the construction of political messages and their dissemination outside of the traditional and mainstream structural, process and behavioral research focus in the discipline. Researchers, teachers, students and other interested parties in political communication, political science, journalism and mass communication, sociology, music, languages, linguistics and the performing arts, communication studies, law and history, will find this book refreshingly handy in their inquiry. Furthermore, this book was conceptualized from a globalist purview and offers readers practical insights into how political messaging through music and entertainment spaces actually work across nation-states, regions and continents. Its authenticity is also further enhanced by the fact that most chapter contributors are scholars who are natives of their areas of study, and who painstakingly situate their work in appropriate historical contexts.