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The Role of Women in Music Production in Spain During the 1960s

Maryní Callejo and the “Brincos Sound”

Marco Antonio Juan de Dios Cuartas

INTRODUCTION

In the flourishing economic environment of the late 1950s, an authentic restructuring within the Spanish music industry took place. Record catalogues would now no longer focus exclusively on folklore, copla, or classical music and instead began to take advantage of the new political and social developments that would soon encourage investment in this sector. The musicologist Celsa Alonso (2005) highlights in her study on Spanish beat the importance of the popular music of the 1960s in the social and cultural changes of “developmentalism”. The author raises the interpretation of the Spanish ...

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