Spanish 462

You may be approached at the desk by students in Leigh Mercer's Spanish 462 class. Their final exam includes a choice of take-home essays (due next Monday) with a small research component. (Most students chose question one.) This class is about Spanish popular culture. Here's some background information and possible sources:

"Students would most likely seek out your help to research the first and third questions. The first has them investigate one of two Spanish fashion designers -- Agatha Ruiz de la Prada or Adolfo Dominguez. The third question has them research the music and artistic style of Bowie or Dylan, to understand these artists' influence on a Gen X novel [Heÿÿroes by Ray Loriga] we read in class."

For question 1:

Starting Points:

• Contemporary fashion / editor, Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/record=b5251392~S6 (Entry on Dominguez...not sure how detailed...found citation in BMGI.)
• Online Fashion encyclopedia, includes bibliography on Dominguez: http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com/Da-Es/Dom-nguez-Adolfo.html
• I'm having trouble locating similar sources for Agatha Ruiz de la Prada.
• Bio and fashion news (search by designer name): http://www.fashionfromspain.com

News:

• Lexis-Nexis seems to be the most helpful...go to news tab, select Spanish language news, enter keywords in Spanish (students can provide)...change date limitations.
• Ex: adolfo dominguez and moda adolfo dominguez and diseno
• Also, Spanish Google News

And Articles:

Academic Search Complete

For question 3:

Starting points:

• Grove Music Online , includes bios, influences
• Odegaard and Music have some titles with good background info on Bowie and Dylan, though they may be checked out by now. Of course they can get CDs at the Media Center...or can listen to clips and read reviews at http://www.allmusic.com/
• Academic Search Complete can help for a narrower search, for example: Bowie and
• Heroes
• There are a couple of new publications on Generation X in Spain...they're checked out already by someone in the class, but available in Summit (if you get someone in the next couple of days), and I've encouraged students to share their sources.
• Generation X rocks : contemporary peninsular fiction, film, and rock culture
• http://uwashington.worldcat.org/oclc/76064521
• Contemporary Spanish fiction : Generation X
• http://uwashington.worldcat.org/oclc/173136209
• The MLA Int'l Bib has some citations to articles on Loriga.

- Deb Raftus