Research Catalog

Title

Roberto Gerhard : re-appraising a musical visionary in exile / edited by Monty Adkins and Rachel E. Mann.

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adkins, Monty
• Mann, Rachel E.

Description

xv, 301 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.

Summary

"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" --

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 252

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 252.

Subject

• Gerhard, Roberto, 1896-1970
• Gerhard, Roberto, 1896-1970 > Criticism and interpretation
• Music > Political aspects > History. > Spain
• Music > Political aspects
• Criticism and interpretation
• Music
• Spain

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Published for The British Academy, by Oxford University Press."

Bibliography (note)

• "List of works": pages 279-296.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JME 23-279

ISBN

• 0197267130
• 9780197267134

OCLC

1334721518

Title

Roberto Gerhard : re-appraising a musical visionary in exile / edited by Monty Adkins and Rachel E. Mann.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 252

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 252.

Bibliography

"List of works": pages 279-296.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Adkins, Monty, editor.

Mann, Rachel E., editor.

Research Call Number

JME 23-279