Roberto Gerhard

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 E. 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: Rachel E. Mann and Monty Adkins: Introduction1: Monty Adkins: Gerhard's Cultural Milieu: An Explorer and a Survivor2: Sebastiaan Faber: The Forgotten Legacies of Spanish Civil War Exile: Dispersed, Diverse, Divided3: Magda Polo Pujadas: The Musical Aesthetic of Robert Gerhard (1914-1938)4: Benjamin K. Davies: Between Heuristic and Hypostatisation5: Francis Lough: National Identity and Spanish Republican Exile6: Samuel Llano: Exile, Music, and Cultural Translation: Gerhard's Transnational Chronotopes7: Leticia Sánchez de Andrés: Roberto Gerhard's First Decade of Exile (1939-49): Rootlessness and Survival8: Mark E. Perry: Gerhard as Composer in Exile9: Judy-Ann Desrosiers: Memoir of The Spanish Civil War: A Political Reading of Roberto Gerhard's Ballet Pandora10: Mari Paz Balibrea: 'Staple of the Contemporary Music Scene': Roberto Gerhard in Geopolitical Perspective11: Marco Ramelli: The Influence of the Spanish Civil War in Gerhard's Guitar Music12: Belén Pérez Castillo: Roberto Gerhard's Cantares: Seven Songs of Absence ... and a Presence13: Julian White: 'Smiling Bravely at the Night': Roberto Gerhard's S ymphony No. 3, 'Collages' and Albert Camus's 'Retour à Tipasa'14: Rachel E. Mann: A Voice Apart: Constructing a Cosmopolitan Identity in Exile