Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo / Carol A. Hess.
| Author/creator | Hess, Carol A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, ©2025. |
| Description | xiv, 141 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oxford keynotes Oxford keynotes. ^A1355770 |
| Contents | El Amor Brujo: a convoluted history -- A tangled creation: the beginnings of El Amor Brujo -- A new El Amor Brujo -- El Amor Brujo: afterlife -- El Amor Brujo: another afterlife -- Further reading (in English) and listening -- Appendix 1. Selected arrangements of El Amor Brujo -- Appendix 2. "Ritual fire dance" and popular music recordings -- Appendix 3. El Amor Brujo: selected historic recordings -- Appendix 4. El Amor Brujo and film. |
| Abstract | El Amor Brujo (trans. "Love, the Magician") is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla that showcases flamenco, the music of the Gitanos, Spain's underclass. 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. Since then, El Amor Brujo has long intrigued arrangers and artists. 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 frothy "movie musicals" from the 1940s, somber accounts of recent Spanish history, or films on anti-Black racism, including one by Spike Lee. In this book, the author explores the ways in which music, class, and race are intertwined in this composition's unusually rich history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024038626 |
| ISBN | 9780197622834 paperback |
| ISBN | 0197622836 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780197622827 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0197622828 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.F215 H475 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |