Beyond Sketches of Spain

Benjamin Fraser is Professor of Iberian Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of ten monographs, including The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape and Comics Form (2019), Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference (2018), and Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities (2015). Fraser currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Hispania, Founding and Executive Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Senior Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and Founding Co-Editor of the Hispanic Urban Studies book series.

• AcknowledgmentsDedicationSelected Tete Montoliu Vinyl DiscographyNote on Theodor W. Adorno and Jazz Criticism Introduction Tete's Musical BiographyAnti-Jazz Attitudes and Transnational Encounters in SpainJazz as Gathering in Difference Chapter 1 - Sketches of Flamenco Sketches of Spain, Francoism and Regressive ListeningVibing with Lionel Hampton on Jazz Flamenco (1956)To The European All Stars 1961 and Beyond Chapter 2 - The Urban Soundscapes of Modern Jazz Jazz and the CityTete and the Speed, Spontaneity and Shifting Conditions of Urban ModernityEurope's Urban Jazz Circuits, Kirk in Copenhagen (1963), and Lliure Jazz (1969) Chapter 3 - Performing Catalanism Jazz Age Barcelona and the First International Jazz FestivalTete's Catalanism, A tot jazz (1965), and the Nova Cançó Catalan Jazz Composition and Catalonian Folksongs (1977) Chapter 4 - Blues, Braille and the Metanarrative of Blindness Disability, Impairment and Tete's Musical EducationBlues Traditions, Sighted Culture, and Disability in Modern MusicAlbum Covers and the Visual Business of Listening to Jazz Epilogue - The Jazz Artist in Transnational Popular Culture NotesReferences Discography and Further ListeningIndex