Negotiating Andalusian Identity in Rock Andaluz Harmony. Musical Modes, 'Expressive Isomorphism' and Meaning in Post-Franco Spain

Abstract

Despite the extraordinary spread of studies dedicated to rock harmony, analytical approaches to this music have principally focused on the structure and syntax. However, aspects such as the way in which different harmonic structures may relate to the conformation of discourses between the global and the local in rock music have received less attention. This article tries to provide an analytical model to reconcile the structural analysis of modal harmony with the study of its meanings in the context of the Spanish transition to democracy (1975-1982), through the study of aeolian and phrygian patterns of harmony in the so-called rock andaluz (Andalusian rock) as musical representations of modernity and traditional values respectively.