"Scripting the urban working woman in tonadillas and cuplés"
The lyric solo of the female worker, that is, the staged sung representation of urban working women's experience, is a performance genre cultivated across multiple types of musical spectacle, from entr'acte tonadillas to género chico to género ínfimo. This talk will trace connections between the singing of eighteenth-century maja characters, and that of early twentieth-century costureras, modistillas, typists and flower sellers.
Rebecca Haidt is a Professor of Iberian Studies at Ohio State University.
Her lecture will be on Monday, April 20th at 4:00pm in Rockefeller 002