Music in Non-Fiction Films: New Practices in Spanish Documentary Soundtracks in the Late Francoist Era (original) (raw)

Music in Non-Fiction Films: New Practices in Spanish Documentary Soundtracks in the Late Francoist Era

In this chapter we give an overview of documentary filmmaking in Spain in the 1960s through a selection of films that we appraise in terms of how elements in the soundtrack are used to devise different meanings, relations or identifications as part of the audiovisual discourse. We then narrow our focus on Rías y ramblas (1968), with music by the film’s director, Antonio Pérez Olea, and El largo viaje hacia la ira (1969), directed by Lorenzo Soler, two examples of geographical documentary and social critique, respectively, within the various subject matters tackled by documentary filmmaking in the 1960s, and through which it is possible to assess the various musical styles and practices used in Spanish documentary soundtracks from that period.