Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea (Dec 2016)
The Russian Soul in the Spanish Imaginary of the Silver Age: Musical and Choreographical Echoes (1914-1923)
Abstract
The article analyses the reception of Russian symphonic music and choreography in Madrid between the outbreak of the First World War in July of 1914 and the beginning of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera in Spain (September 1923) through the local, daily press and specialized journals. The essay has a double objective: to evaluate the role of Russian music in the capital during a crucial historical period in which the Spaniard were divided into aliadophiles and germanophiles, and to identify particular and significant details of the Russian imaginary in Spanish culture, constructed around music and ballet that served his time as referent and mirror in the search of an Spanish musical identity. This comprehensive analysis aims to contribute to a clearer understanding of the Russian and Soviet cultural transference in Spain’s iconic Silver Age.
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