As the first English-language monograph to explore the connections of Spanish exiled composers with their homeland throughout 1939-1975 from the perspectives of historiography, music criticism, performance and correspondence, Eva Moreda Rodriguez's vivid reconception of the role of place and nation in twentieth-century music history will be of particular interest for scholars of Spanish music, Spanish Republican history, and exile and displacement more broadly. Its explorations significantly further academic research on individual composers including Salvador Bacarisse, Julian Bautista, Roberto Gerhard, Rodolfo Halffter, Julian Orbon and Adolfo Salazar.

Eva Moreda Rodriguez lectures in Music at the University of Glasgow. She specializes in the political and cultural history of Spanish music during the twentieth century, and her work has appeared in leading journals such as Twentieth-century music, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Music and Letters and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, among others.

List of Music Examples
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Rodolfo Halffter and Conflicting Narratives of Modernity

2 Salvador Bacarisse: A 'Performer's Composer' in Exile

3 Roberto Gerhard: The Clash of Two National Histories

4 The Hispanic Middle Ages under Francoism and in Exile

5 Constructing the Intellectual Musician in Francoist Spain

Conclusion: Exiles and Returns

Bibliography
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