Resonancias (Jun 2023)
Un género en disputa: flamenco, autenticidad y política en las revistas españolas sobre música popular urbana (1962-1976)
Abstract
Flamenco was essential to cultural and political discourses in Spain during Late-Francoism and the first years of the Transition to Democracy. Based on hemerographic sources, this paper examines the presence of flamenco in four popular music magazines of that period, analyzing its position as a negotiated music genre since it was understood as traditional music, political song or protest folk, and also as popular music. The first section explores several press references about palos -music styles in flamenco- that show an idea of flamenco as an “immutable” music tradition. After that, the relationship between protest flamenco by Gerena, Morente, or Menese with folk music and the idea of the social protest song is studied. In a third step, it considers how some relevant figures of flamenco guitar, such as Paco de Lucía and Manolo Sanlúcar, are represented by popularization strategies related to popular music narratives. In the epilogue, I argue how this dimension of flamenco as a music genre in constant negotiation articulates several discourses of authenticity related to culture and politics during Late Francoism and the Transition to Democracy.
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