Música e identidad

From the Baroque period to the first avant-garde movements, Spanish intellectuals aimed to control musical theater but ended up creating a distorted view of its history. Music in Spain was constrained by strict moral guidelines and the imposition of essentialist references that aimed to define its meaning. However, as Rafael Lamas demonstrates in his analysis of significant cases, the conflict between literature and music led to the emergence of original alternatives to dominant European aesthetics. This paradox reveals the complexity and contradictions inherent in the debates of Spain’s cultural past, including tensions between progress and conservatism, and between inherited identity and modernization.

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