The soundtrack of the barrio in contemporary Spanish cinema: from Rumba to Latin and flamenco-trap

• Autores: Eduardo Viñuela Suárez
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music / Laura Miranda González (ed. lit.), 2024, ISBN 9781003174974, págs. 274-283
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Cities have always been one of the main scenarios for cinema. Streets, architecture and urban spaces appear in films not only as backgrounds, but rather as active spaces that configure the places of characters, stories and narratives. The representation of the city in films is never objective; soundtracks have served to define urban spaces, and directors have used music as a tool to delineate character profiles and to create narratives.In this chapter, I explore the use of popular music in contemporary Spanish films related to the life in the barrio, analyzing several films from the 1970s to the present day. Following Adam Krims, I analyze the role of popular music in these films to configure the “urban ethos” of the barrio. I delve into these processes both diachronically and synchronically, in order to demonstrate how certain musical tropes have remained constant in these films, whereas others have slightly changed in time.