Thesis

Cultural identity and Galician folk music

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  • University of Strathclyde
Date of award
  • 2005
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  • T11251
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Abstract
  • This study is concerned with the roles Galician folk music has played and plays in the promotion of national/cultural identity in the two revivals, the first of which (Rexurdimento) arose towards the end of the nineteenth century and the second (Recuperación) in the mid nineteen-seventies. Events are described which led to the rise of the Galician literary, political and social movement called Provincialism (1840-1885), because it was out of this movement that the first music revival emerged. The two phases that followed Provincialism in Galicia were Regionalism (1885-1916) and nationalism (1916-1936) during which time the musical Rexurdimento truly flourished. This study therefore pinpoints the main galeguista (Provincialist, Regionalist and nationalist) theories, particularly the ideas of the latter two periods, which shaped the conclusions of the principal musicologists and composers of these three eras. Racial and linguistic ideas were the most influential. In the late nineteen-sixties, towards the end of Franco's dictatorship, the Galician version of the New Song Movement surfaced in which musicians performed songs in Galician as a way of protesting against the oppressive regime. Out of this movement grew the Recuperación that focussed on reviving Galicia's musical traditions. In order to gauge the general attitudes and motivation behind the work of those involved in this project, a significant number of musicians were interviewed regarding their identity and their music. The main findings were that language and music are the principal components of Galician identity today, especially the former, and that race no longer has a place in its definition.
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  • Rodgers, Eamonn
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  • uk.bl.ethos.417346
Date Created
  • 2005
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  • 997066553402996

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