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Academic journal publishing on the cultural production and cultural practices in or related to the nations comprised by the Spanish state

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · 7d

This week we published issue 26.3! Featuring essays on early modern animal studies and ethnomusicology, plus a special section on Silvia Albert Sopale’s “Blackface y otras vergüenzas” with full text/English translation of the play and a critical introduction

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

Volume 26, Issue 3 of Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · 7d

Accompanying Albert Sopale’s play is a critical introduction, written by Eva María Copeland, which argues that the use of the spectral in this work by the Spanish playwright and actress links past and present, local and global in the context of Black lives

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Silvia Albert Sopale's Blackface y otras vergüenzas in the wake of Black lives in Spain

This brief introduction to Silvia Albert Sopale’s 2019 play Blackface y otras vergüenzas situates the work within Spain’s ongoing denial of its African and Afrodescendant histories and the glaring ...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · 7d

A special section of this issue is dedicated to Silvia Albert Sopale’s “Blackface y otras vergüenzas”, including the full Spanish text of the play’s third version (performed in New York in February 2025) and its translation into English by Shannel Julius

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Blackface y otras vergüenzas, ver. 3 // Blackface and Other Shameful Acts, ver. 3

This is the text for the third version of the play Blackface y otras vergüenzas by Silvia Albert Sopale. Following the original text is a translation into English of this version of the play by Sha...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · 7d

Both a scholar and a musician, Luis Gimenez Amoros offers an in-depth study of his recent album “The Unknown Spanish Levant (Egypt)”, showing how his musical practice provides a way to explore the legacies of al-Andalus, from Spain, to Egypt, across Africa, and beyond

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Música festera, coexistence and multimusicality during the making of The Unknown Spanish Levant (Egypt)

This article addresses the development of música festera, a musical style with over 3,000 compositions, for the celebration of the Moros y Cristianos festival in eastern Spain that has been held si...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · 7d

Stacey Parker Aronson studies a seventeenth-century pliego suelto and its ostensibly innocent treatment of a pig, arguing that this work of popular literature uses the pig as a way to surreptitiously denounce non-Christians

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A pig in a poke? An affirmation of pro-Christian ideology through gastronomy in an early modern Spanish pliego suelto

The plethora of Christian references to the pig, and its associations, both saintly and demonic, in a seventeenth-century pliego suelto by Francisco de Palencia manifests the obfuscated Christian r...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · 7d

This week we published issue 26.3! Featuring essays on early modern animal studies and ethnomusicology, plus a special section on Silvia Albert Sopale’s “Blackface y otras vergüenzas” with full text/English translation of the play and a critical introduction

www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjsc20/2...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

Volume 26, Issue 3 of Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

www.tandfonline.com

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 25

Transnational queer identities on social media is the topic of study for Adrián Gras-Velázquez and Antoni Maestre-Broton’s article from 2019 – they consider questions of assimilation and difference for foreign nationals searching for a queer community in Spain doi.org/10.1080/1463...

#Gayspain: homonormativización y transnacionalidad en Instagram

El objetivo de este estudio es examinar el uso (eventual o continuado) que la comunidad gay extranjera residente en España hace de la red social Instagram. Concretamente, se indaga en la noción de ...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 25

Analyzing Madrid’s Pride celebrations (in particular, the “pregón” or opening act), Ignacio Elpidio Domíngeuz Ruiz studies the many tensions between commodification and resistance at Madrid Pride (celebrating its 47th year this June) doi.org/10.1080/1463...

Neither resistance nor commodification: Madrid’s LGBT Pride as paradoxical mobilization

Pride events and queer spaces have become, throughout the years, the loci of debates and conflicts. The relationship between emancipatory and activist origins, on the one hand, and an evolution tow...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 25

Interested in Spain’s independent film industry in the years following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, Chris Perriam offers a case study of two LGBTQ author-producer-agencies and how they depict queer lives on film in crisis and post-crisis in Spain doi.org/10.1080/1463...

Post-crisis LGBTQ film- and video-making in Spain: two case studies

This essay is concerned with the ways in which the social, political and economic aftermath of the 2007–2008 global financial crisis has shaped small-scale, independent film- and video-making in Sp...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 25

From 2010, Linda Williams’s essay uncovers the melancholia of lost homosexual attachments apparent in Almodóvar’s melodramatic “Tacones Lejanos” (1991) doi.org/10.1080/1463...

Melancholy melodrama: Almodóvarian grief and lost homosexual attachments*

Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 5, No. 3, 2004)

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 25

Timothy McGovern analyzes the queer themes (ignored by many critics at the time) in the poetry of Galician poet Antón Lopo in his article from 2006, asserting the need for queer Galician literature in a Spain that had just legalized same-sex marriage doi.org/10.1080/1463...

Expressing Desire, Expressing Death: Antón Lopo's Pronomes and Queer Galician Poetry

Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 7, No. 2, 2006)

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 25

OPEN ACCESS (June 1–August 31) are the following articles from the archive – chosen to accompany the publication of issue 26.2 and celebrate Pride Month, these five essays approach LGBTQIA+ issues in Spain across different media and contexts

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 20

In an OPEN ACCESS article, Cristián Ricci explores the tensions of fame and identity faced by Miss Raisa – the Moroccan-born rapper and influencer, who grew up and resides in Barcelona

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Beats and beliefs: Miss Raisa's digital advocacy, autobiographical journey and the quest for identity, integration and empowerment

In her autobiography Porque me da la gana: una vida en contra de prejuicios (2022), hip-hopper Miss Raisa (Imane Raissali Salah, b. 1997) explores themes of cultural identity, religion and the inte...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 20

FREE ACCESS until September 1 is Ian Russell’s article on Pepe Espaliú’s performance art piece “El nido”, studying the legacy of the Córdoba-born artist's meditation on presence, absence, and illness

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 20

Diego Zorita Arroyo enters into the discourse on “empty Spain” with his article – FREE ACCESS until Sept. 1 – analyzing the 1958 dam novel “Central Eléctrica”, by Jesús López Pacheco

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Narratives of depopulation before La España vacía: Jesús López Pacheco’s Central Eléctrica against Paco el Rana’s dams

In his essay La España vacía (2016), Sergio del Molino highlights narratives about rural Spain that fail to accurately represent these areas, either through idealized or grotesque portrayals. This ...

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 20

Óscar Bascuñán provides an enlightening study of newspaper reports of communal action against gendered violence in late-19th/early-20th century Spain, studying the interplay between the press, the public, and the legal system at the turn of the century

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Jun 20

JSCS is happy to announce the publication of issue 26.2! Featuring essays on performance artist Pepe Espaliú, rapper/influencer Miss Raisa, Jesús López Pacheco’s “Central Eléctrica”, and public reactions to gendered violence in fin de siècle Spain

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

Volume 26, Issue 2 of Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

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Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Mar 21

The web series Desalmados is the focus of Alex Saum-Pascual and Freya Schiwy’s 2012 article – published in post-08 crisis Spain – on new media forms and the limit to which cultural works question the necropolitical systems of power in which they are made
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DESALMADOS. HIPERTEXTOS Y BIOPOLÍTICA EN EL MUNDO DE LA WEBSERIE ESPAÑOLA

Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2012)

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Mar 21

The role of live music – especially rock and pop concerts, as well as club culture – in Barcelona’s larger project of urban regeneration is studied in Duncan Wheeler’s 2020 article #Barcelona
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Barcelona, a musical olympus? Live concerts, club cultures, television and city branding

The 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games announced Spain’s democratic credentials and facilitated a vast urban regeneration project in the Catalan capital. There is extensive bibliography on the role playe...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Mar 21

How does children’s TV reflect the changes of early-70s Spain, as the country sought to modernize while maintaining the conservative, authoritarian values of Francoism? This is the basic question asked in this study of RTVEs children’s programming between 1969–75
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Nuevos programas para nuevas realidades: la programación infantil y juvenil en TVE (1969–1975)

Se analiza la programación infantil y juvenil de producción propia y ajena emitida por TVE entre 1969 y 1975 para valorar si los cambios políticos, sociales y culturales experimentados en el tardof...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Mar 21

In this review article from 2001, Jessamy Harvey analyzes the nostalgia – critical and otherwise – found in the 1990s trend of republishing children’s cultural materials from Spain’s postwar years
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The value of nostalgia: Reviving memories of National-Catholic childhoods

Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2001)

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Mar 21

Tom Whittaker studies Valencia’s “Ruta del Bakalao” dance scene in the 1980s/1990s, considering how its emphasis on sonic speed and tempo reflected the rapid changes and frenzied rhythms of a changing Spain #bakalao #Valencia #musicamakina
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Accelerated rhythms and sonic routes: mapping the sound cultures of bakalao

This article explores the phenomenon known as the “Ruta del Bakalao”, a hugely popular dance scene that first emerged in nightclubs in Valencia in the 1980s and spread across the whole of Spain in ...

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Mar 21

No plans this weekend? Check out our curated selection of articles from the archive – free access until June 1! Linked thematically to JSCS 26.1, these articles consider Spanish youth and youth culture: such as clubs/concerts, RTVE’s children’s shows, and web series! #Spain #CulturalStudies

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Mar 17

Eduardo Matos-Martín's book, "Biopolítica y franquismo: disonancias y rupturas en la España contemporánea" is reviewed by Katie J. Vater

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Biopolítica y franquismo: disonancias y rupturas en la España contemporánea

Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2025)

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Mar 17

Noël Valis's "Lorca after life" is reviewed by Miguel García López @yalepress.bsky.social

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Lorca after life

Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2025)

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies @jscs-revista.bsky.social · Mar 17

"The arts of encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the power of images in early modern Spain" by Catherine Infante is reviewed by Yonatan Glzer-Eytan @uoftpress.bsky.social

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The arts of encounter: Christians, Muslims, and the power of images in early modern Spain

Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 26, No. 1, 2025)