<p>How can a song help the hungry and persecuted to survive? Stephanie Sieburth’s <em>Survival Song</em>s explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the <em>copla</em>, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer, helped Republican sympathizers to survive the Franco regime’s dehumanizing treatment following the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). Piquer’s <em>coplas</em> were sad, bitter stories of fallen women, but they offered a way for the defeated to cope with chronic terror, grief, and trauma in the years known as the “time of silence.”</p><p>Drawing on the observations of clinical psychotherapy, Sieburth explores the way in which listening to Piquer’s <em>coplas</em> enabled persecuted, ostracized citizens to subconsciously use music, role-play, ritual, and narrative to mourn safely and without fear of repercussion from the repressive state. An interdisciplinary study that includes close readings of six of Piquer’s most famous <em>coplas</em>, <em>Survival Songs </em>will be of interest to specialists in modern Spanish studies and to clinical psychologists, musicologists, and those with an interest in issues of trauma, memory, and human rights.</p>