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The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book, the first major study of the tonadilla in English, examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together and traces the lasting influence this genre has had on the historiography of Spanish music. The tonadillas' careful constructions of musical populism provide a window onto the tensions among Enlightenment modernity, folkloric nationalism, and the politics of representation; their diverse, engaging, and cosmopolitan music is an invitation to reexamine tired old ideas of musical "Spanishness." Perhaps most radically of all, their satirical stance urges us to embrace the labile, paratextual nature of comic performance as central to the construction of history.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Tonadilla in Performance
• Author: Le Guin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 408
• EAN: 9780520276307
• ISBN: 0520276302
• ID: 01986656
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 698 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 162 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. November 2013

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