Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain [Hardcover]

InMusic Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain, Eva Moreda Rodr?guez presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the diverse and often divergent writings of music critics in the early years of the Franco regime. Carefully selecting contemporary writings by well-known music critics, Moreda Rodr?guez contextualizes music criticism written during the Franco regime within the broader intellectual history of Spain from the nineteenth century onwards.The early years of the Franco regime saw the formation of a strong governmental propaganda apparatus. Through expansive press laws that solidified state control over public and private media outlets alike, the Franco government directly influenced what information was made available to the public. While music critics and journalists were by no means free from government control and direction, music criticism under the Franco regime did not adhere to any official party line on music. Indeed, music criticism often demonstrated a diversity of opinion and ideological belief that runs counter to many common assumptions about journalism under fascist regimes.InMusic Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain, Eva Moreda Rodr?guez presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the diverse and often divergent writings of music critics in the early years of the Franco regime. Although she does not shy away from the thorny issues of propaganda and censorship, Moreda Rodr?guez considers other factors that shaped the journalistic discourse surrounding music. Political rivalries, ideological diversity within musical conservatism, as well as the explicit and implicit expectations of the Franco government all influenced the diverse landscape of music criticism. Moreover, the central issues that music critics were concerned with during Francoism's early years-modernist music, Spanish early music, traditional music, and music's role in organizing the state-had already been at the center of debates within the presslB