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Article: Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage.(Review)
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Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage. By Janet L. Sturman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. (Music in American Life.) [x, 243. ISBN 0-252-02596-2. $29.95.]
The zarzuela is the only musical genre named after a bush. Well, in a manner of speaking. Its long and intriguing history began in the seventeenth century at the theater of the Palacio de la Zarzuela outside of Madrid. The palace was surrounded by bramblebushes (zarzas) and hence its name and that of the musico-theatrical entertainment that came into being there.
The zarzuela is terra incognita to most audiences and scholars outside the Spanish-speaking world. Like many regional ...