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Rodriguez
Rodriguez
high standard; there are no overtly weak long devoted attention to audiences and recep-
corners. tion to account for a complex phenomenon
Overall, this large, hardback book is very whose ramifications (including in the domain
nicely produced by the University of Rochester of national-identity building) must be ap-
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Cultural Studies. This latter field has tradition- is, the locations and areas of influence of cafe¤s
ally been slow to consider music and sound cantantes, as well as the shifting centres of mar-
compared to other cultural practices, but there ginality and crime in urban Madrid. This
seems to be a recent current of interest into allows Llano to discuss, for example, not just
which this study inserts itself: indeed, shortly the debates and controversies concerning
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El Sistema in Venezuela), it was somewhat questioned the canon. Instead, he sought to
surprising to note that the Madrid workhouses blend the boundaries of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art by
were not more clearly and substantially turning to the burgeoning discipline of film
contextualized within this tradition, in order to music studies. Skip forward to 2018, and a new
ascertain what was unique to Madrid, volume seeks to pay tribute to Franklin and his
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