Aportaciones al estudio de la sociabilidad coral en la España contemporánea

Abstract

Choral song has been an element of collective identification for many European communities, characterizing their cultural expression and on many occasions contributing to the development of their historical destiny. The importance of choral associations has been a point of interest and research from a number of different angles and cultural realities. This article does not aspire to be a history of choral song in Spain, but to serve as a reflection on the paths taken so far in the study of the phenomenon and to channel new ideas and perspectives in the study of musical and choral sociability. Nineteenth-century Spain was, like contemporary Spain, the sum of different national realities with distinct cultural forms of expression, and therefore with different ways of seeing and understanding choral song, which took on different shapes in the different zones where it evolved. It experienced as many different forms of development as there were different social formations and cultures.