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Listening to Silvio Rodríguez's Días y flores

A Microhistory of the Album

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Listening to Silvio Rodríguez's Días y flores

A Microhistory of the Album

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Silvio Rodríguez is one of the most famous Latin American songwriters of the second part of the 20th century.

His songs punctuate the soundtrack in the lives of many generations of Ibero-Americans who found in them spiritual refuge, moral revitalization, and political expression. His first commercial album, Días y flores (Days and Flowers), released in 1975, stands as a symbol of an exceptionally creative moment in Cuba and a politically charged period in the world. Alejandro L. Madrid takes this LP as a point of entry into understanding how young people around the world saw in Silvio's songs a poetic and musical reflection of their utopian dreams to build a more egalitarian and just society. The book also explores how these ideas are transformed and made meaningful anew at a time when the revolutionary Cuban experiment seemed to have finally expired but also at a politically convoluted moment that witnessed the rise of many totalitarian and oppressive regimes around the world.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Popular Music and the End of History
1. Early Days and Early Flowers
2. Towards Días y flores
3. Producing and Recording Días y flores
4. Días y flores: The Album and Its Circulation
5. Listening to Días y flores
Epilogue. Días y flores after the End of History

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 13 May 2027
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 224
ISBN 9798216564157
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 8 b/w photos
Series Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Alejandro L. Madrid

Alejandro L. Madrid is the Walter W. Naumburg Prof…

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