The Spanish songwriter : culturals and socials manifestations in the Spain of the second half of the Twentieth Century ; La canción de autor española : manifestaciones culturales y sociales en la España de la segunda mitad del siglo XX ; La Chanson d'auteur espagnole : manifestations culturelles et sociales dans l'Espagne de la 2nde moitié du XXème siècle

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Abstract

This work focuses on the study of the Spanish author's song in the last third of the 20th century, from a perspective of cultural history and sociology, based on socio-political, socio-economic and socio-cultural elements as engines of analysis. To do this, we have relied on a corpus of fifteen singer-songwriters selected for their popularity and successful sales to the Spanish public in order to delve about the gears of the record industry, as well as in relations with the institutions in this period of political changes with the passing of a dictatorship to a democracy. To do this, you have to study the different spaces of the author song in a comparative way with the spaces of the Spanish song. These spaces can be physical such as concert venues or the media on which records or media such as radio, television and the press are recorded. It is necessary to analyze all this in a comparative way to see the distinctive signs between both songs and the common points that allow to see the influences and interferences of the market and the mediatization in the singer-songwriters. At the same time, we must place the author's song and its performers in the history of the contemporary Spanish song and see how a genre that might be born as a counterculture is transformed over time and integrated as an active part and motor of the evolution of the Spanish song of the last years of the 20th century. Given this transformation, it should be borne in mind that the political and poetic elements that, in the beginning were the defining characteristics of the genre have also evolved over time, being able to talk about a depoliticization and a depoetization of the Spanish author's song in the last thirty years of the 20th century. ; Este trabajo se centra en el estudio de la canción de autor española en el último tercio del siglo XX, desde una perspectiva de historia cultura y de sociología, partiendo de los elementos sociopolíticos, socioeconómicos y socioculturales como motores del análisis. Para ello, nos hemos apoyado en un ...