Hispanic Traditions in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Raoul Laparra's La habanera (1908) and French Critics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5014931 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Llano (0000-0001-5915-597X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 136 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-140 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Musical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-0403 • E-ISSN: 1471-6933 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02690403.2011.562715 |
| OpenAlex | W2030652180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The French composer Raoul Laparra held an advanced knowledge of Spanish culture and music that was rare among French musicians. In his first opera, La habanera (Opéra-Comique, 1908), he tried to represent a Spain that was 'different from Carmen', focused on the 'colder' central region of Castile rather than southern, gypsy stereotypes. However, owing to several inconsistencies in his ideological agenda, and the weight of conventional representations of Spanish music and culture, Laparra rendered a contradictory image of Spain, which drew partly on the very southern and gypsy stereotypes he had intended to oust. Furthermore, the French critics' lack of familiarity with Spanish traditions caused his project to be misunderstood. Those critics read La habanera in the context of French cultural struggles, mostly related to the definition of a national identity and the influence of Italian and German music
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Cultural identity · German · Ideology · Literature · Opera · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Law · Medieval European Literature and History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Spanish History and Politics
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |