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Experimenting Musically with Democracy in Late Francoist and Post-Francoist Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2023

IGOR CONTRERAS ZUBILLAGA*
Affiliation:
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
*

Abstract

This article examines how musical practices in 1970s Spain formed ways of imagining democracy and how they participated in the wider social struggle to define freedom and equality for the final years of Franco's dictatorship and its immediate aftermath. I shall analyse two case studies: a large-scale experimental art festival held in the streets of Pamplona in 1972 and a grassroots musical collective created in 1973 on the initiative of the composer Llorenç Barber. Drawing on previous studies on the relationship between music and democracy, participatory art and the politics of spectatorship, and the insights of political science and philosophy into democracy, I offer a critical reassessment of the Pamplona festival and explore the relationship between grassroots collaboration and ideas of participatory democracy, and analyse the significance of this relationship in 1970s Spain.

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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