Cantar y callar al son de la transición

Abstract

This is the story of the Labordeta brothers, how one influenced the other, and how both, the unhappy post-war poet and the popular singer-songwriter of the Transition, influenced the renewal of contemporary Spanish poetry. In the face of the resistance to understanding, to agreeing on what the years of the Transition are, what they mean and what they do not mean (whether break with the Francoist past or reform, pact of forgetting or amnesty law, empty Spain or Spain of the movida...), here I interpret this long and prolonged period of the Transition as the time of the Spanish poet’s death. ), here I interpret this prolonged crisis that Spanish society has been going through since the Civil War as a crisis of mediation, that is, a crisis and transformation of the  media, especially the medium of the voice, which is the first medium that human beings use and that poets and singers use with particular skill to communicate and, if we are lucky, to flourish.