"Paper lovers!": The Singers of “Cuplés” and their Performativity through the Photographic Postcards of the First Decades of the 20th Century in Spain

Abstract

This article is written from the “History with photography”, instead of "History with photography" and read postcards as memory devices. It centers these memories on the constellation of singers of “cuplés” whose performativity generated endless postcards that gave rise to other new performative events in the houses, streets and studios of painters and writers. We talk about the singers, about them, the writers and painters, and about the final “postal women”.