From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition. However, as Samuel Llano argues in Whose Spain?, perceptions and representations of Spanish musical identities changed in the early twentieth century, due to the emergence of the hispanistes. These specialists on Spanish music and culture, who wrote enc...

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I: "Spanish music" as propaganda
• Chapter 1: "Spanish music" as allied propaganda
• Chapter 2: "Spanish music" as Catholic propaganda
• Part II: Negotiating French and Spanish music
• Chapter 3: Citizens or Savages?: The Spaniards in Raoul Laparra's La jota (1911)
• Chapter 4: Manuel de Falla's La vie brève (1914) and notions of "Spanish music"
• Part III: Building the Postwar order
• Chapter 5: Domesticating Difference?: Carmen and the "French" canon i...