Collective memory of music : an approach to political sentimentality at the end of the dictatorship in Spain

Abstract

This paper enlightens Spanish history of the last years of the Francoism from the point of view of the people who experienced that time. In this aim, it aspires to analyze the history like a sum of vital experiences instead of remarkable events. It deals with a personal sphere of the history, which is still actual today looking into the different politic feelings. Six songs written between 1968 and 1975, drawn the profile of social groups distinguishable from each other from their compliance with the hegemonic system and their different ways to live the present and project the future.