Spanish Culture

Spanish popular culture is one of the richest in the world. The absence of an efficient ruling class has allowed the people to stamp their personality on all major aspects of the country's life. This book describes the peculiar Spanish feeling for death and tragedy in popular religious practices, music and the bullfight; the "fiesta sense of life," so foreign to the work ethic of other Western countries; the oral tradition that has managed to survive into the post-industrial age with its creative use of slang, proverbs and obscenity; popular literature, the press, radio, television and the movies. A familiarity with Spanish popular culture is essential to understanding Spain.

Introduction 1. Culture and Modernity: The Case of Spain I: Elites in Crisis, 1898-1931 National Identities 2. The Loss of Empire, Regenerationism, and the Forging of a Myth of National Identity 3. The Nationalisms of the Periphery: Culture and Politics in the Construction of National Identity Ideological Tensions 4. The Social Praxis and Cultural Politics of Spanish Catholicism 5. Education and the Limits of Liberalism Modernismo and Modernisme 6. Literary Modernismo in Castilian: The Creation of a Dissident Cultural Elite 7. Catalan Literary Modernisme and Noucentisme: From Dissidence to Order 8. Catalan Modernista Architecture: Using the Past to Build the Modern The Avant-Garde 9. The Literary Avant-Garde: A Contradictory Modernity 10. Internationalism and Eclecticism: Surrealism and the Avant-Garde in Painting and Film, 1920-1930 11. The Musical Avant-Garde: Modernity and Tradition Popular Culture 12. Rural and Urban Popular Cultures 13. The Cuple: Modernity and Mass Culture II: The Failure of Democratic Modernization, 1931-1939 Sexual Politics 14. Women and Social Change 15. Beyond Tradition and `Modernity': The Cultural and Sexual Politics of Spanish Anarchism Intellectuals and Power 16. Reform Idealized: The Intellectual and Ideological Origins of the Second Republic 17. The Republican State and Mass Educational-Cultural Initiatives, 1931-1936 Monolithicity versus Pluralism: Political Debates 18. The Political Debate within Catholicism 19. Catalan Nationalism: Cultural Plurality and Political Ambiguity The Cultural Politics of the Civil War 20. The Republican and Nationalist Wartime Cultural Apparatus 21. Propaganda Art: Culture and the People or For the People? III: Authoritarian Modernization, 1940-1975 i. Building the State and the Practice of Power, 1940-1959 The Material Reality of State Power 22. `Terror and Progress': Industrialization, Modernity, and the Making of Francoism 23. Gender and the State: Women in the '40s Cultural Control 24. Education and Political Control 25. The Moving Image of the Franco Regime: Noticiaros y Documentales 1943-1975 26. The Ideology and Practice of Sport 27. Censorship or the Fear of Mass Culture Cultural Nationalism 28. Cifesa: Cinema and Authoritarian Aesthetics 29. Constructing the Nation: Francoist Architecture 30. Music and the Limits of Cultural Nationalism Resisting the State 31. The Urban and Rural Guerrilla of the '40s 32. Popular Culture in the `Years of Hunger' 33. The Emergence of a Dissident Intelligentsia ii. Developmentalism, Mass Culture, and Consumerism, 1960-1975 Adapting to Social Change 34. Social and Economic Change in a Climate of Political Immobilism 35. Educational Policy in a Changing Society 36. Catholicism and Social Change Opposition Culture 37. The Left and the Legacy of Francoism: Political Culture in Opposition and Transition 38. The Politics of Popular Music: On the Dynamics of New Song Artistic Experiment and Diversification 39. Literary Experiment and Cultural Cannibalization 40. Painting and Sculpture: The Rejection of High Art 41. Cimema, Memory, and the Unconscious IV: Democracy and Europeanization: Continuity and Change, 1975-1992 Democracy and Cultural Change <

Julia L. Ortiz-Griffin teaches Spanish language and literature in the City University of New York.

The first edition of this book was published in 1966. It became a standard work as a survey of economic, social, and political origins of modern Spain leading up to the apparent defeat of the liberal tradition with General Franco's victory in the Civil War. Since 1966 there has been a revolution in Spanish historiography. The more modern history of Spain, a neglected, even dangerous field, virtually unexplored, has since come into its own. In this edition, Raymond Carr has added new chapters that examine Francoism, its political system, and the society it sustained. He brings the story up to the death of General Franco in 1975, and in an extensive bibliographical essay considers the recent contribution of Spanish scholars to the period 1808-1939.

This is the first complete reference book on Spanish history, life, and culture from prehistory to 1994 and the only book on Spain in English or Spanish that is organized by region and province. It is designed to assist students and interested readers in identifying and understanding regional and provincial history, economy, literature, art, music, social customs and cultural life, historic sites, and provincial cuisine (recipes included). Organized into entries on the 18 regions and subdivided into the 50 provinces, this one-stop reference makes gathering information on each region and province easy. A map of each region and photos accompany the text.

Some 750 alphabetically-arranged entries provide insights into recent cultural and political developments within Spain, including the cultures of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country. Coverage spans from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to the present day, with emphasis on the changes following the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1975.Entries range from shorter, factual articles to longer overview essays offering in-depth treatment of major issues. Culture is defined in its broadest sense. Entries include:*Antonio Gaudí* science* Antonio Banderas* golf* dance* education* politics* racism* urbanizationThis Encyclopedia is essential reading for anyone interested in Spanish culture. It provides essential cultural context for students of Spanish, European History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.