@article {Anido:2019:1463-6204:423,
title = "Singing the past: the politics of music in Carmen Mart{\’ı}n Gaite",
journal = "Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/cjsc",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2019",
volume = "20",
number = "4",
publication date ="2019-10-02T00:00:00",
pages = "423-443",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1463-6204",
eissn = "1469-9818",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjsc/2019/00000020/00000004/art00006",
doi = "doi:10.1080/14636204.2019.1689680",
keyword = "music, Martín Gaite, women, politics, dictatorship",
author = "Anido, Raquel",
abstract = "Carmen Mart{\’ı}n Gaite directed her critical and creative gaze toward many forms of popular culture. However, music plays a particularly important role in her work and has not been closely examined. Mart{\’ı}n Gaites predilection for music is such that it forms an explicit
connection among her works, as is the case with the article Cuarto a espadas sobre las coplas de posguerra (1972), the novel-essay El cuarto de atr{\’a}s (1978) and the book-length essay Usos amorosos de la postguerra espa{\~n}ola (1987). This article analyzes
the political repercussions of popular music in constructing memory and argues that popular music in Mart{\’ı}n Gaite is an intertext that serves in narrating the past. In particular, popular music in Mart{\’ı}n Gaites literature facilitates catharsis regarding the open wounds
from the Spanish Civil War and the postwar period.",
}