Survival Songs: Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror

by Stephanie Sieburth

Book Overview

How can a song help the hungry and persecuted to survive? 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 (1936-39). Piquer's coplas were sad, bitter stories of fallen women, but they offered a way for the defeated to cope with chronic terror,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442644737
• ISBN13: 9781442644731
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher