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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