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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento Vol. 9, Nº 17| NOV 2024 | Open Topic. Deadline for full manuscript submission: July 31, 2024. 

Pop as a Graphic Expression of the Catalan Cultural Resistance

Authors

  • María Àngels Fortea Castillo BAU, Centro Universitario de Diseño de Barcelona

Abstract

In the 1960s, the implementation of a renewed cultural industry took place in Catalonia (Spain) as a tool of peaceful action in opposition to Franco’s dictatorship and its cultural guidelines. As a result, an important cultural production was developed, in Catalan language, applying the Pop Style. By 1968 it became the formal language of the cultural resistance. New record labels were founded at the time when the popular song became the most effective media of the Catalan language. They were the first to apply the Pop style, with a clear American influence, evolving over time towards a native version of Pop that rediscovered the Catalan graphic tradition.

Keywords:

Catalonia, cultural industry, cultural resistance, Pop graphics, record labels