[ES] Las colecciones fotogr?ficas conservadas en la Hispanic Society of America (EEUU) son una fuente extramusical de inestimable valor, al describirnos los trabajos de campo de investigadores extranjeros en la Espa?a anterior a la Guerra Civil. De especial importancia son las im?genes expresivas que se conservan de Kurt Schindler y Ruth Anderson, que constituyen modelos identitarios de informantes rurales espa?oles. C?mo ven estos investigadores las actividades del ciclo vital en la Espa?a de los a?os 20 y 30, desde las procesiones religiosas a los mercados ambulantes, pasando por bailes y costumbres folkl?ricas, constituyen un material in?dito que necesita ser analizado en profundidad. Podemos describir su actividad como retro-informaci?n, que excede al trabajo de campo en s? mismo porque capta im?genes de actividades musicales que forman intr?nsecamente un repertorio de ida y vuelta. Estas im?genes nos permiten describir c?mo ven los extranjeros la Espa?a rural, y c?mo se deja ver y fotografiar esa Espa?a a unos investigadores que se interaccionan con su medio. Corresponde a esta fotograf?a, en este caso concreto, asumir el papel de disciplina auxiliar de la musicolog?a al servicio de la m?sica espa?ola.

[EN] The photographic collections held at the Hispanic Society of America (USA) are an invaluable extramusical source reflecting fieldwork carried out by foreign researchers in Spain prior to the Civil War. Particularly important are the expressive images captured by Kurt Schindler and Ruth Anderson describing the identitary models of rural Spanish informants. The manner in which these researchers viewed daily life in Spain during the 1920s and 30s, from religious processions to open-air markets, folk dancing and popular traditions, has yet to be studied today and is in need of in-depth analysis. Their work could be described as retro-information, going beyond the fieldwork itself, because it included images of musical activities that intrinsically form a repertory that was subjected to both local and foreign influences. This material allows a description of how foreigners viewed rural Spain to be established, as well as how the country allowed researchers who interacted with their surroundings to view and photograph it. In this case, photography acts as an auxiliary discipline of musicology, at the service of Spanish music.