Roberto Gerhard Re-Appraising a Musical Visionary in Exile

Monty Adkins, University of Huddersfield,Rachel E. Mann, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Monty Adkins is a composer, performer, and Professor of Experimental Electronic Music at the University of Huddersfield. He has written and edited books on the relationship between art and music, ambient music, the work of Roberto Gerhard as well as journal articles on the aesthetics of digital music for Organised Sound and the Journal of Music Technology and Education, book chapters on music education, mixed music, and the electronic music of Christopher Fox. Adkins is also active as a composer and sound designer.


Rachel Mann is an Assistant Professor of music theory at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and has held appointments at the University of Illinois, University of North Texas, and University at Albany. Her research interests include music theory pedagogy, educational technology, and the music and writings of Roberto Gerhard. She is a reader for the AP Music Theory Exam and Senior Content Developer for the software app Harmonia by Illiac Software, which has received major funding from the National Science Foundation. Her research is published by Ashgate, Cambridge Scholars Press, Routledge, and the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.

i. Introduction, Rachel Mann and Monty Adkins
1. Gerhard's Cultural Milieu: An Explorer and a Survivor, Monty Adkins
2. The Forgotten Legacies of Spanish Civil War Exile: Dispersed, Diverse, Divided, Sebastian Faber
3. The Musical Aesthetic of Robert Gerhard (1914-1938), Magda Polo Pujadas
4. Between Heuristic and Hypostatisation, Benjamin K. Davies
5. National Identity and Spanish Republican Exile, Francis Lough
6. Exile, Music, and Cultural Translation: Gerhard's Transnational Chronotopes, Samuel Llano
7. Roberto Gerhard's First Decade of Exile (1939-49): Rootlessness and Survival, Leticia Sánchez de Andrés
8. Gerhard as Composer in Exile, Mark E. Perry
9. Memoir of The Spanish Civil War: A Political Reading of Roberto Gerhard's Ballet Pandora, Judy-Ann Desrosiers
10. 'Staple of the Contemporary Music Scene': Roberto Gerhard in Geopolitical Perspective, Mari Paz Balibrea
11. The Influence of the Spanish Civil War in Gerhard's Guitar Music, Marco Ramelli
12. Roberto Gerhard's Cantares: Seven Songs of Absence EL and a Presence, Belén Pérez Castillo
13. 'Smiling Bravely at the Night': Roberto Gerhard's Symphony No. 3 'Collages' and Albert Camus's Retour a Tipasa, Julian White
14. A Voice Apart: Constructing a Cosmopolitan Identity in Exile, Rachel E. Mann