Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo /
"El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. Its showcases flamenco, the music of the Spanish Gitanos (gypsies). When it premiered in Spain, in 1915, it proved controversial: some Spanish critics applauded Falla for celebrating the mus...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Oxford keynotes.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. Its showcases flamenco, the music of the Spanish Gitanos (gypsies). When it premiered in Spain, in 1915, it proved controversial: some Spanish critics applauded Falla for celebrating the music of a marginalized culture while others attacked his mixing of classical and popular idioms. El amor brujo has long intrigued arrangers and artists, however. It has been repeatedly reshaped, rearranged, and repackaged, either by Falla himself or by artists ranging from the concert pianist Artur Rubinstein to the super-showman Liberace or to various jazz and pop arrangers. El amor brujo has also figured in soundtracks, whether in frothy "movie musicals" from the 1940s, somber accounts of recent Spanish history, and films on anti-Black racism have drawn on El amor brujo, including one by Spike Lee. How did this rich trajectory come about? This book invites the reader to explore music, race, and class through El amor brujo"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (some color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197622865 0197622860 9780197622858 0197622852 9780197622841 0197622844 |