Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries). IMS Intercongressional Symposium

Session

Tourism and Music in the Spanish Mediterranean

FP4

Jul 9, 2025, 10:30 AM

Aula 7

Conveners

Tourism and Music in the Spanish Mediterranean

• Pasqual Hernández Farinós

113. “Sol y sal”: music strategies regarding Mar Menor’s ecocide

7/9/25, 10:30 AM

Free paper

Located in the Southeast of Spain, the Mar Menor is the biggest coastal saltwater lagoon of Europe. Since at least 2015, due to a mix of various anthropogenic causes, it has faced a big ecological crisis, with two mass deaths of fauna in 2019 and 2021 due to the eutrophication of its waters. This intervention analyzes the musical responses to the Mar Menor ecological crisis. Focusing on...

3. When Spain courted tourists: Music in the tourism promotion magazines of the first half of the 20th century

7/9/25, 10:50 AM

Free paper

While in countries such as Switzerland and France tourism had already been consolidated in the 19th century as an economic and cultural vector, at the beginning of the 20th century in Spain tourism was still an incipient, marginal activity lacking public regulation or organised national promotion. However, it was beginning to attract the attention of both political agents and businessmen at a...

123. Traditional music in the Pitiusas Islands: towards a sustainable genre (remote)

7/9/25, 11:10 AM

Free paper

The islands of Ibiza and Formentera, especially after the Civil War, underwent a series of social, political and economic changes that influenced the panorama of traditional music, leading to the almost total disappearance of the practice and performance of much of its repertoire, which subsequently forced them to initiate a process of recovery and safeguarding of this.

This recovery and...