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"Spanish Bombs" - The Clash "Life During Wartime" - Talking Heads "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" - Manic Street Preachers; Spain in My Heart: Songs of the Spanish Civil War (Various artists) (2007) —with contributions by Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Joel Rafael and Aoife (Finnes) Clancy (from Cherish the Ladies).
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and ...
v. t. e. The Spanish Revolution was a workers' social revolution that began at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and for two to three years resulted in the widespread implementation of anarchist and, more broadly, libertarian socialist organizational principles throughout various portions of the country, primarily Catalonia, Aragon ...
Sketches of Spain is a studio album by the jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis. It was released on 18 July 1960 through Columbia Records. The recording took place between November 1959 and March 1960 at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City. An extended version of the second movement of Joaquín Rodrigo 's Concierto de Aranjuez ...
This helped Spain gain some relatively easy conquests. North American borders proposed by the Spanish diplomacy near the end of the American Revolutionary War, August 3rd, 1782. The war gave a boost to the kingdom's prestige, which had suffered from the losses to Britain in the Seven Years' War.
In Spain, music has a long history. It has played an important role in the development of Western music, and has greatly influenced Latin American music. Spanish music is often associated with traditional styles such as flamenco and classical guitar. While these forms of music are common, there are many different traditional musical and dance ...
The " Himno de Riego " ("Anthem of Riego") is a song dating from the Trienio Liberal (1820–1823) of Spain and named in honour of Colonel Rafael del Riego, a figure in the respective uprising, which restored the liberal constitution of 1812. The lyrics were written by Evaristo Fernández de San Miguel, while the music is typically attributed ...
John Philip Sousa (/ ˈsuːzə, ˈsuːsə / SOO-zə, SOO-sə, [ 1 ][ 2 ]Portuguese: [ˈso (w)zɐ]; November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches. [ 3 ] He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his ...