 | Survival Songs: Conchita Piquer''s ''Coplas'' and Franco''s Regime of Terror Subjects: Piquer Conchita 1908–1990 -- Criticism and interpretation; Coplas -- Spain -- History and criticism; Coplas -- Spain -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century; Popular music -- Spain -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Spain -- Psycholo; 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 the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Sieburth Stephanie : Stephanie Sieburth is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. |
