In this
collective work coordinated by Ignacio Sacaluga, Doctor of Communication from
the European University of Madrid and MBA in Business Management from IBEDE Business
School, and currently Director of the Communication Department of the
Communication Faculty of the European University of Madrid, and Álvaro Pérez, Doctor
of Pedagogy from the University of Granada, currently full professor at the
Sagrada Familia University Center, appointed to the University of Jaén, get
together the works of a group of researchers who have a common goal: to promote
the academic foundation of the Carnival of Cádiz from various fields of study.
In this regard, the historian Felipe Barbosa alludes
in his chapter, dedicated to the Carnival of Cádiz as a cultural heritage with
five centuries of antiquity that fights for the freedom of expression, to the
origin of the dimension that has reached with the passing of time the Carnival
of Cádiz throughout the XIXth century. A period in which the songs
that were sung in the city served as a transmission belt for a party that was yearly
renewed in music, lyrics and names.
Doctor Santiago
Moreno offers in his chapter, dedicated to the successes and defeats of the Carnival,
a historical look of the party, focusing his work at the time of the Dictablanda and the IInd
Republic. He will point in this way to the history of the Conjunto
Hércules and the Dantón o Los Libertadores Franceses choir, seeing in this
point how the story tries to explain the interest that the different social
sectors in the Carnival, as well as in the mass communication media of the
first third of the last century.
Doctor Maria Luisa Páramo Fernández-Llamazares
highlights in her chapter the literary and scenic component of the Carnival of
Cádiz, defending its value as a manifestation of popular culture that takes
place in the context of a local fiesta.
Doctor Ignacio Sacaluga Rodríguez explores in his
work, dedicated to the coplas and the social communication of the Carnival, in the
communicational repercussion of this sociocultural phenomenon. In this chapter
we can see how the coplas can have an own message character in relation to the
basic theory of telecommunications in a communicative process, where the mass
audience is not only delimited in the seats of a theater and of an official
contest, but to the totality under the use of social networks.
For his part, Doctor Francisco García Gallardo
addresses the musical richness that the coplas of Cádiz flaunt, as well as the
global flow of culture that emanates from them, reaching with his study to
address the sociopolitical, cultural and geographical context, where music and fiesta
have been submitting, and adapting, to different hybridization and
miscegenation processes.
To conclude we have the chapter of Doctor Álvaro Pérez
García, where the Carnival of Cádiz is shown as an example of educational and
educational project. He insists on the idea of taking the Carnival from the
street to the classroom, in order to take advantage of the didactic and
creative potential that emanates from the Carnival party, as well as the great
educational resources that the festival presents.
This
book, therefore, is consequence of a greater interest in the research effort to
complete the fingerprint of the Carnival of Cádiz from very different point of
views: its literary and scenic dimension, the musical, the communication or the
pedagogy, without forgetting the legitimate commercial vision that, faced with
an increase in the demand for Carnival contents, it is preparing for a golden
age.