Stephanie Sieburth: 2 books
Inventing High and Low
Literature, Mass Culture, and Uneven Modernity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Dire word of the cultural threat of the lowbrow goes back at least to the ancient Greeks, and yet, Stephanie Sieburth suggests, no division between "high" and "low" culture will stand up to logical scrutiny. Why, then, does the opposition persist? In this book Sieburth questions...
Survival Songs
Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
How can a song help the hungry and persecuted to survive? Stephanie Sieburth’s Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer, helped Republican sympathizers to survive the Franco regime’s dehumanizing treatment following...