Rock Catal (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The term Rock Catal is used to describe those bands singing in Catalan of any music style, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The last years of Spain under Franco were shattered by a generation of singers that claimed and called for democracy. In this context, La Nova Can is the protest song musical and political movement of artists singing in Catalan, like Llu?'s Llach, Raimon or Ovidi Montllor. In the late 1960s and during the 1970s, the Nova Can movement introduced lyrics in Catalan in contemporary music in order to reach wider audiences (until then, this language was only used in folk songs); then, by the 1980s and the return to democracy in Spain their popularity was waning.