School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Eva Moreda Rodriguez

  • Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow (Music)

telephone: 01413302613
email: Eva.MoredaRodriguez@glasgow.ac.uk


Research Interests

My main research specialism is the political and cultural history of Spanish music from the late 19th century to the present – roughly speaking, from Albéniz’s and Granados’s art songs to the use of copla in contemporary Spanish film.

Within this broad chronological frame, particular periods I have focused on include: the reception of Spanish symphonic music in the UK during the First World War; music criticism and journalism in early Francoism; Spanish dance companies in the UK during the Cold War years; or, most recently, the reception of Spanish exiled composers under the Franco regime (see under ‘Research Projects’).

I see myself as both a historical musicologist and a Hispanist, and my work has been informed by a number of theoretical approaches, such as: gender studies, exile studies, reception studies, dance and body studies. I also have a nascent research interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning music in higher education contexts.

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow in September 2012 as Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow in Music as a Cultural Practice, having held research and teaching posts at the Royal Academy of Music and The Open University.

I obtained undergraduate degrees in Classics and in Musicology at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and La Rioja, and worked in the media and arts management industries in Spain and Germany before coming to the UK in 2006. My PhD, completed at Royal Holloway College – University of London in 2010, explored music criticism and journalism in Spain under the first years of the Franco regime (1939-1951), including the writings of prominent composers and performers (Joaquín Rodrigo, Joaquín Turina, Regino Sainz de la Maza) who doubled up as music critics.

My publications have appeared in both Music and Hispanic Studies journals, exploring topics in the cultural and political history of Spanish music such as: the musical exchanges between Spain and the Axis countries during the Second World War; Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto Heroico; folklore and gender in early Francoism; or the appropriation of Falla under the Franco regime.

Research Projects

My current research project, as LKAS Research Fellow, explores the rehabilitation of the exiled Republican musicians into Francoist Spain from 1950 to 1975; case studies include Roberto Gerhard, Julián Bautista, Rodolfo Halffter, Gustavo Pittaluga, Jaume Pahissa, Eduardo Martínez Torner, Adolfo Salazar, Salvador Bacarisse and Jesús Bal y Gay. Typically, scholars of the Spanish Republican Exile have paid little attention to this phenomenon, which is usually explained under the light of the regime’s liberalization from the 1950s onwards. My project upholds the idea that, rather than an attempt at national reconciliation, certain institutions, groups and individuals working under the regime sought to absorb the exiles and their work into pre-existing narratives of Spanish culture and, specifically, of the history of Spanish music - narratives which, in some cases, have prevailed until the present day.

  • Dame Margaret Tuke Travel Bursary awarded by Royal Holloway in order to undertake archival research in Madrid, 2007 (£250).
  • Grant of the Associate Lecturers’ Development Fund awarded by The Open University in order to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Indianapolis, 2010 (£400).
  • Music & Letters Trust Award to conduct archival research on Julián Bautista at the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, 2011 (£493).
  • Everett Helm Short-Term Fellowship awarded by the University of Indiana – Bloomington to conduct archival research on songs of the American-Spanish war at the Lilly Library, 2012 ($1,850).

In 2012-13 I am contributing to the following courses

  • Listening and repertory
  • Musical Techniques Foundation
  • Dissertation/Edition
  • MMus Research Seminars

Office Hours: Mondays 4 - 5pm

Invited Talks/Lectures

  • ‘Julián Bautista and Catro Poemas Galegos: Galician vs Spanish Myth’, New Perspectives on Galician Music, University College Cork, November 2011.
  • ‘Flamenco and Spanish Dance: A Case Study in Performance and Politics’, Museum Research Events series, Royal Academy of Music, May 2010.
  • ‘Good wives, good mothers, good folklorists: Gender and Music in 1940s Spain’, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, June 2009.
  • ‘Barriendo el tinglado modernista: el Franquismo como purificador en la crítica musical’, First Conference of the ‘Music and Ideology’ Research Network, University of La Rioja (Spain), November 2008.

Selected conference Papers

  • ‘Celebratory Music in 1940s Spain: the case of Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto Heroico’, 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Contemporary Iberian studies, King’s College London, September 2012.
  • ’25 years later: The Music of the Republican Exiles at the Festival de Música de América y España’, Second International Roberto Gerhard Conference, Barcelona (organized by the University of Huddersfield), April 2012.
  •  ‘Celebratory Music in 1940s Spain: the case of Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto Heroico’, Seventh Biennial Conference on Music Since 1900, Lancaster University, July 2011.
  • ‘Music, Fascism, Race and Canon: Musical Exchanges between Spain and Germany, 1939-45’, American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, November 2010.
  • ‘Spanish Music in Britain: Two Case Studies from the First World War and the Cold War’, 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Contemporary Iberian studies, Roehampton University (London), September 2010.
  • ‘‘Internal dissidents? Julio Gómez, Xavier Montsalvatge and 'official music' during the earlier Franco regime’, Conference Music and Politics, University of Bristol, April 2010.
  • ‘Good wives, good mothers, good folklorists: Gender and Music in 1940s Spain’, SMI/RMA Joint Annual Conference, Royal Irish Academy of Music, July 2009.
  • ‘Sounding out Hispanidad: Ancient Music Revival during the Early Franco Regime’, Sixth Biennial Conference on Music Since 1900, Keele University, July 2009.
  • ‘Spanish Music, 1945-1951: Post-fascism, Para-fascism, National-Catholicism?’, RMA Study Day Music after Fascism, University of York, July 2008.
  • ‘Hispanic-German Music Festivals during the Second World War’, Conference Music, Oppression and Exile, International Centre for Suppressed Music, SOAS, London, April 2008.