Dr Eva Moreda Rodriguez
- Lecturer (Music)
- Adviser of Studies (PG) (Arts College Graduate School)
telephone: 01413302613
email: Eva.MoredaRodriguez@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Please note that I will be on research leave from January to December 2018. This means I am no longer holding any administrative posts (PG advisor, international convenor, etc.) - please direct your query to the relevant person.
Research Interests
I specialize in the political and cultural history of Spanish music from the late 19th century to the present. Themes that have interested me over the years include: exile; memory; music criticism and journalism; music and war; recording technologies; art song and vocality; history of reception; history of Spanish musicology; the Spanish avant-garde.
Research Projects
I am currently PI in an AHRC-funded Leadership Fellowship on early recording cultures in Spain (1880-1905). Focusing on the so-called gabinetes fonográficos, which produced and sold their own recordings, the project seeks to (a) produce the first critical account of the early history of phonography in Spain (1880 to 1905); (b) in doing so, set the foundations of a transnational, context-sensitive understanding of the early history of musical recordings, fully integrating both local specificities and issues of national identity, memory, affection, mobility, modernity and others.
I have recently published two books on music and culture under Francoism. Music and Exile in Francoist Spain analyses the connections of Spanish exiled composers with their homeland throughout 1939-1975. Taking the diversity and heterogeneity of the Spanish Republican exile as its starting point, the volume presents extended comparative case studies in order to broaden and advance current conceptions of, and debates surrounding, exile in musicology and Spanish studies. In doing so, it significantly furthers academic research on individual composers including Salvador Bacarisse, Julian Bautista, Roberto Gerhard, Rodolfo Halffter, Julian Orbon and Adolfo Salazar. Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain is the first English-language study of Spanish music criticism in the 1940s.
I have an ongoing interest in the Digital Humanities (mainly visualization and GIS), and maintain the projects Spanish Music in Exile and Inventing the recording.
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 became a Lecturer in 2015. 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.
My archival work in Spain has been supported by a number of funding bodies (Music & Letters Trust, Lucille Graham Trust, Carnegie Trust), and in summer 2013 I was a short-term Everett Helm research fellow at Indiana University’s Lilly Library. In September 2015 I organized the Ninth International Conference on Music since 1900.
Grants
- 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).
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Small Grant for the project ‘Writing the exiles back into the history of Spanish music: Salvador Bacarisse and Roberto Gerhard’, 2013 (£2440).
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Small Grant for the project ‘Rodolfo Halffter and the Franco regime - music, exile and collaboration', 2014 (£920).
- John Robertson Bequest for the project 'Laying the foundations for a critical study of early phonography in Spain: gabinetes fonográficos in Madrid, 1898-1905.' 2016 (£850).
Supervision
I am currently supervising two PhD theses on musicians' trade unions in Chile and on canon building and national identity.
I welcome enquiries from students wishing to pursue doctoral research in topics related to my research interests.
- Bols, Ingrid
Programming choices and national culture. The case of French and British symphony orchestras. - Findlay, Jack
John Field and the influence Russian music culture had on his compositions. - Karmy Bolton, Eileen Andrea
The working lives of the organised musicians in Valparaiso (Chile).
Teaching
I am on research leave from January to December 2018 so I am currently not teaching at either UG or PGT level.
Additional Information
Invited Talks/Lectures
- 'Travelling phonographs in fin-de-siècle Spain: recording technologies and national regeneration in Ruperto Chapí’s El fonógrafo ambulante', Music Composition Centre seminar series, Trinity College Dublin, December 2016.
- 'Outreach, entertainment, innovation: Spanish exiled composers in European radios', Spain beyond Spain, College d'Espagne/IRCAM, Paris, November 2016.
- 'The problems of integrating exiled composers into the Spanish musical canon: a look at Jaume Pahissa’s Seis canciones para canto y piano’, 75 Years Since the Spanish Civil War, Sheffield, March 2014.
- ‘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.
