An inside view of "Movida Madrileña"
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viernes, 11 de enero de 2013
miércoles, 9 de enero de 2013
Conclusions' essay
The "Movida Madrileña" was a
counterculture movement that emerged in Madrid in the late 70s and early 80s
after the end of the Franco’s dictatorship and death. It brought the
resurrection of the Spanish economy and a new identity and vision of Spain.
A characteristic that should be noted is that
it was a movement that was carried out by young people and they were the ones who
transformed the music, fashion, ways of speaking, and many other aspects in a
way in which they were recognized by the different symbols that were integrated
in this movement. One of the considered starting points of this countercultural
movement, which spread short time later, was "Concierto homenaje a
Canito”.
During the years of dictatorship in Madrid
there was no freedom of expression, opinion, image ... but it was all due to
impositions, and the death of Franco and his dictatorship meant the revolution
of freedom of speech and expression. These rights originated the movement,
which is something that has made us being free in all the aspects of our lives
today, without anyone banning you but being just characterized. At the time I characterize because there were no
taboos, and the more party, more fun. The “Movida Madrileña” engendered new ways
of drinking, drugging, moving, dressing, creating, loving and living.
The different styles of clothing were very
important for "La Movida Madrileña" and we observe that they were all
rule-breaking and transgressive since each one expressed its own personalities
and tastes through the way they dressed like. Among the different styles that
emerged there were different groups that bind between them, and their opinions
and tastes were the same or similar. Today designers continue highlighting that
at this time designers as Agatha Ruiz de la Prada or Manuel Piña were very
successful.
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Thanks to Angel Pereira, who lived this
movement closely, we have discovered that music is an essential pillar because
"La Movida would not be moved
without music." The groups that emerged over those years included a common
point, this point was freedom; however each group expressed what they felt or what
they wanted to say to the society.
In Madrid city, we find one of the most special
and characteristic places that were born during the “Movida Madrileña",
this place is “El Rastro”. During this movement it was a place where young
people were able to exchange their records or discs, clothes and believes in
order to learn new aspects of what was happening at that time and how did each
one felt living this culture. It is important to emphasize this place because
today it still exists, and we not only find antiques and “puestos” from this
movement, we can also see that what emerged in those years it is still done nowdays.
The “Movida Madrileña" was a movement
whose pillars were music and freedom of expression, which gave us was a very
important historical event that nowadays is still living thanks to the changes
that emerged at that time.
lunes, 24 de diciembre de 2012
METODOLOGY
The topic that we have chosen is interesting nowadays and it has a major influence on what Madrid is today.
Firstly, we looked for the definition of “La Movida Madrileña” to find
out what it was exactly, after, we focused on finding the information that we needed for
our work, and therefore, we had to subtract the information that we considered more interesting.
It was important for our research that
we made a previous outline on the most interesting points that we wanted to deal
with and it helped us to make this work with a greater effectiveness.
About the interview and the
interviewee, it was very important the great work of Marta Sanz with his uncle, to
know in detail some of the thousand stories that he lived, as the reasons that led him to form a group, for example. However we also had a problem: we had too much information and too little
time to expose it all, so we had to think about doing a great summary of all the information.
Definitely, this work
helped us to improve our knowledge on a great event that arose in Madrid, and in which
we did not just stayed on the surface, but we went deeply into details. We have also enjoyed doing it.
jueves, 13 de diciembre de 2012
Entry 4
CONSEQUENCES
The Movida
Madrileña was an event that involved all Madrid and changed the view that people
had about the city.
We want to
highlight different ways of clothing that could be found in the same city
without happening any problems between the several groups that we could appreciate
in those years, since all the people were "equal". It was an period
of time in which freedom had a great role, people were free to express their
emotions, thoughts, tastes,... Through music, journalism, fashion...
From that
time , it began to be created various musical groups that played at places
which are currently very popular as Rock-Ola. Some important groups were born
in these places such as: “Alaska y los Pegamoides”, “Radio Futura”, “Nacha Pop”...
Music
played a very important role, because through music, people expressed several feelings,
opinions, as the circumstances that were being lived at that time... We have realized
that the music was a great influence on the mentality of young people and
marked a before and an after in Madrid.
Throughout
the interview to Ángel Pereira we have realize what "La Movida
Madrileña" really was and how he
lived it, also, the interview gave us memories and scars that have left Madrid marked.
miércoles, 5 de diciembre de 2012
Entry 3
In the interview that we are going to do, we want to find out:
·
HIS PERSONAL LIFE DURING THIS PERIOD:
o
The reasons why the group was
created.
o
How did the formed it.
o
Where and whom did they asked
for help.
o
The way that they gave out
their music.
o
If they had their own life out
of this world (job, studies…) or if they were completely dedicated to music.
o
The groups that he listened to
and the influences that affected to the music of the group.
o
What he thinks about the other
music groups.
· HIS OWN EXPERIENCIES:
o
The environment that he lived.
o
Memories.
o
One anecdote that he
remember more especially or shocking.
· CONSEQUENCES:
o
If the way he lived during
this period affects in his life nowadays.
o
If the evolution of society
produced during this movement has changed or affected to the actual society.
· OTHER TOPICS:
o
What did he think about drugs
(alcohol included).
o
How the fashion was and the
different kinds of ways of dress.
o
How did he live other arts
like cinema or paintings.
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"Radio Futura" |
sábado, 24 de noviembre de 2012
Entry 2'
BACKGROUND RESEARCH (2):
Scope: What we know about "Movida Madrileña" are the most famous groups that have more importance during this period (Alaska y los Pegamoides, Nacha Pop, Radio futura, Gabinete Caligari, La Unión, Ejecutivos Agresivos, Tino Casal, Mecano...) but thanks to our interviewee, we have search for less known groups that really were into this world (Asfalto, Leño, Triana, Tequila, Burning, Topo, Coz, Barón Rojo, El Gran Wyoming y Maestro Reverendo...)
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Those are discs through which we have listened to the music of this movement. |
Also, we want to show the importance of bars and pubs during this movement, because they were the heart of "Movida": the groups offered concerts in clubs such as Rock-Ola, Carolina, El Pentagrama, La Vía Láctea, Marquee, El Jardín, El Escalón... and also they were the places where the cultural exchange occurred.
A post in Wikipedia, give us a simple view about what this movement was and what it involved, and it also highlights the main elements (music, films, television, photos, paintings...) of those years:
La Movida Madrileña (English: The Madrilenian scene) was a countercultural movement that took place mainly in Madrid during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco's death in 1975. It represented the resurrection of the economy in Spain and the emergence of a new Spanish identity.Although this hedonistic cultural wave was born in Madrid, it emerged in parallel in other Spanish urban centers, such as Barcelona,Bilbao and Vigo. It was characterized by freedom of expression, transgression of the taboos imposed by the Franco Regime, use of recreational drugs, the "coming out" of the Madrilenian cheli and the "pasota" dialect and a new spirit of freedom on the streets.
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Photo of one of the most excentric groups of the Movida: Almodóvar y Fabio Mcnamara. |
Entry 2
BACKGROUND RESEARCH
One of the documentary evidences that we have used in order to know the historical background of the "Movida Madrileña! is "Frenesí en la gran ciudad". This documentary was broadcasted by TVE2 in 2011, and it shows this movement through interviews and opinions of its own main characters.
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Promocional photo of the documentary |
"Madrid,
years 80, it is time of destruction, this movement was like an awakening, and it
went from a dark Spain into a Spain of colors".
Important
musicians that marked the “Movida Madrileña” were: Nacha Pop, Alaska y los
pegamoides, Los Bólidos, Tos (Los Secretos), Radio Futura, Tequila…
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Photomontage about some important groups of the mevement |
In 1975
Franco’s dictatorship ends with his death and then started the Transition
Period.
Madrid
before Franco’s death was sad and everything in black and white while after his
dictatodhip there was an explosion of color.
The
years of the “Movida Madrileña” were called Years of Rock and Roll city.
It was
very important the musical influences that came from outside. One of the
persons that introduced enough of this information was Alaska. She brought
information from London and that was fundamental.
In this
movement the free expression and the revolution of the gays that were dispersed
occurred but that fact was important in this movement, producing a great
cultural agitation.
Painters,
musicians, photographers, filmmakers, designers met in various locations as
bars or pubs, to exchange their ideas and culture, normally in the famous
district of Malasaña.
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District of Malasaña |
The
concert “Homenaje a Canito” (considered as the beginning of “Movida” by many
authors) was done at Complutense University in the school of roads, and it
showed us everything that was happening in the underground culture.
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Poster of the concert, it shows all the groups that participated in it. |
In 1979
the first municipal elections of democracy occurred. Madrid counted with
Enrique Tierno Galván as mayor, deeply humanist and considered the mayor of La
Movida.
The
fight against drugs was done in two different ways, one moral and other
physical. Drugs played an important role in the musical groups as heroine,
speed and amphetamines.
During
1980 – 1982 the groups were visible, heterogeneous and quite a few. The
different musical types that you could find in that moment were: punk, after
punk, techno and rock.
The sky
of Madrid changed thanks to the figure of Torre
España, called Pirulí, which was important for the retransmission of the World’s
Cup of football in 1982.
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Photo of the "Pirulí", one of the most known buildings in Madrid |
Very
important is to highlight the attempted coup the 23th of February in 1981 by
Tejero, which stirred up people of Movida Madrileña, that were seeing its end.
As in
the case of music and art; fashion in the Movida was involved at the same time
with the rest of fields. The most important brands were: Adolfo Domínguez, Jesús
Del Pozo, and Agatha Ruíz de la Prada. Clothing was very important because was
the way of being identified according to your musical or artistical tastes.
Collage of some designs in those years. |
Print culture evolved two
magazines popping color:
o - “La Luna”: with more
text and less fashionable design.
o - “Madrid me mata”: with more graphics than
literary.
In
March of 1985 the famous Rock-Ola
club closed because of a street fight that ended with the death
of a man.
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Photo of Rock-Ola club. |
In the lasts years of this decade, the movement was losing
strength and little by little it was dissolving or developing into other kinds
of art.
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