‘Sing as you talk’: Politics, popular music and rock criticism in Spain (1975–1986)

Abstract

The field of popular music in Spain underwent an important transformation in the years of the country’s political transition from 1975 to 1986, producing a great confluence of two music scenes: the so-called ‘Movida’ scene and the hard-rock scene. This article analyses a variety of music magazines and personal interviews with rock critics to trace how the process of legitimation in rock criticism deepened during those years. From a theoretical standpoint, this article applies ideas from the sociology of art criticism to popular music studies, Motti Regev’s work on the non-Anglophone music press and Shyon Baumann’s work on the legitimation process.

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