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Songs With Political Purpose: The Catalan Nova Cançó And Its Social Movement, Brooke Moschetto
Songs With Political Purpose: The Catalan Nova Cançó And Its Social Movement, Brooke Moschetto
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This thesis is a study of the interaction of music and politics during the social movement in Catalonia, Spain, the nova cançó. This interaction demonstrates the importance of a cultural identity, imagined communities, and cultural planning for a nation. In the case of Catalonia, the nova cançó played an immediate crucial role in the transformation of society during the last years of the extremely repressive dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-1975). Franco controlled Spain ideologically through censorships and power over the media in order to spread his values of a unified, homogenous, nationalist fatherland. In this way, he destroyed the …