Discòfils: notes on the birth of the record club and the record listener in 1930s Barcelona

Moreda Rodríguez, E. (2021) Discòfils: notes on the birth of the record club and the record listener in 1930s Barcelona. In: Roy, E. A. and Moreda Rodríguez, E. (eds.) Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890-1945. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 100-116. ISBN 9780367439217 (doi: 10.4324/9781003006497-8)

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on one single record club, Discofils, operative in Barcelona for a year and a half between late 1934 and mid-1936. There are three main reasons why Discofils makes for a noteworthy case study to interrogate the practices and artifacts described by Maisonneuve and Tournès. Key to understanding the development of Discofils is the various discourses that developed around modernity in Spain from the later decades of the nineteenth century onwards. While the connection between recording technologies and modernity discourses that underpins the birth of Discofils can be tracked down to these earlier years, the cultural landscape in 1900 was still significantly different to the one that gave rise to the record club in 1934. Zarzuela composers, however, were more concerned with regulating the hiring of their scores for the purposes of live performance; this, and not recordings, was still the main means they had available of making their works known and financially profitable.

Item Type:Book Sections
Status:Published
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Moreda Rodriguez, Dr Eva
Authors: Moreda Rodríguez, E.
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts > Music
Publisher:Routledge
ISBN:9780367439217
Published Online:01 September 2021

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