Abstract
This paper discusses the production of the so-called Generation of 27 and the documentary Generacion 27 - Creacion, vanguardia y vida , Canal Sur Andalucia, Spain, in honor of the 80 years of the movement. We address the performance matter, according to the theory by Zumthor (2000), which can be compared to what the participants of that generation did during that period in their artistic encounters, and in a parallel way to what some artists that express themselves through rap and graffiti did in 2007, by resuming the poetic, musical and visual creations of the artists of 1927. We develop a comparative analysis of these productions and of what participants of the Spanish movement (ALONSO; GUILLEN, 1984) and literary historians (CONCHA, 1984) argue about the period, and of authors (REYES-SANCHEZ, 2007; HALL, 2011) who research the cultural manifestations that are closer to the new global social reality. We conclude that both movements, Generation of ‘27 and the artists of 2007, seek, with their productions, to give visibility to the plurality of voices of the popular and street tradition, even though the documentary suggests the presence of a hegemonic and institutional apparatus that somehow interacts and interferes with the maintenance and / or expansion of this process.
Highlights
The so-called Generación del 27, as it is known, had among its members Federico García Lorca, Pedro Salinas, Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda, Jorge Guillén, Dámasco Alonso, in addition to several other prominent names linked to the literature and to the arts in Spain during the first half of the 20th century that became popular in the period immediately before the Spanish Civil War
Along with the course that starts with the poetry fixed on the writing of the ‘Generación’ and comes to the rap of the group of Andalucian young boys there is a subjacent one, wide, of cultural nature, in which, at the starting point, originators and protagonists in the last decades of the 20th century were not Spanish artists but black youths from New York’s suburbs
In 2007, the production of the video that honors the poets of ‘27 gives voice to graffiti artists, to the MC and to the interviewed public so they comment on what they understand by art, on the diversity of the cultural manifestations they know or produce and so they say what they think about the famous generation of Spanish artists
Summary
The so-called Generación del 27, as it is known, had among its members Federico García Lorca, Pedro Salinas, Rafael Alberti, Luis Cernuda, Jorge Guillén, Dámasco Alonso, in addition to several other prominent names linked to the literature and to the arts in Spain during the first half of the 20th century that became popular in the period immediately before the Spanish Civil War. Most of them were from Andalucia. The list of names is object of constant interrogations It does not incl ude, for instance, Rafael Laffón, a less evident poet in the group and, oftentimes, linked to what happened to be called El otro 27. Like Lorca, less fortunate, lost their lives during the period Several of these names had their productions disclosed, are remembered and even worshiped as the creators of a group of great importance in that moment in Spain. The variety of artistic perspectives and the plurality of names linked to the group were emphasized, and we anticipate here: Laffón gains prominence in the documentary for the Andalucian channel, cited in the first minutes and dominating the final moments
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