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Roberto Gerhard : re-appraising a musical visionary in exile
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"Gerhard was one of the most visionary composers of the twentieth century drawing together ideas from science, philosophy, and the arts into an oeuvre that encompasses the folk song of his native C...
"Gerhard was one of the most visionary composers of the twentieth century drawing together ideas from science, philosophy, and the arts into an oeuvre that encompasses the folk song of his native Catalonia, to serialism and electronic music. The composer lived through some of the most tumultuous times in recent memory including the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War as an exile in England. This edited volume uniquely brings together specialists in Spanish cultural studies, exile, musicology, and analysis to explore how these events and the post-war cultural and political climate shaped Gerhard's life and work" --
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- edited by Monty Adkins and Rachel E. Mann
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- English
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- First edition
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
- ©2022
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- xv, 301 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0197267130, 9780197267134
- OCLC
- on1334721518
- "Published for The British Academy, by Oxford University Press."
- "List of works": pages 279-296.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Rachel E. Mann and Monty Adkins -- Gerhard's cultural milieu : an explorer and a survivor / Monty Adkins -- The forgotten legacies of Spanish Civil War exile : dispersed, diverse, divided / Sebastiaan Faber -- The musical aesthetic of Robert Gerhard (1914-1938) / Magda Polo Pujadas -- Between heuristic and hypostatisation / Benjamin K. Davies -- National identity and Spanish Republican exile / Francis Lough -- Exile, music, and cultural translation : Gerhard's transnational chronotopes / Samuel Llano -- Roberto Gerhard's first decade of exile (1939-1949) : rootlessness and survival / Leticia Sánchez de Andrés -- Gerhard as composer in exile / Mark E. Perry -- Memoir of the Spanish Civil War : a political reading of Roberto Gerhard's ballet Pandora / Judy-Ann Desrosiers -- "Staple of the contemporary music scene" : Roberto Gerhard in geopolitical perspective / Mari Paz Balibrea -- The influence of the Spanish Civil War in Gerhard's guitar music / Marco Ramelli -- Roberto Gerhard's Cantares : seven songs of absence ... and a presence / Belén Pérez Castillo -- "Smiling bravely at the night" : Roberto Gerhard's Symphony no. 3, "Collages," and Albert Camus's "Retour à Tipasa" / Julian White -- A voice apart : constructing a cosmopolitan identity in exile / Rachel E. Mann