Tijera contra papel. Vetoes and Barriers to Underground Music: the Basque Case

Abstract

This article analizes the trajectory of Berri Txarrak —the Basque Musical Group— in the Spanish underground’s framework. It intersects with the opinions expressed by the generalist Media and special attention is paid to the coercive means that the State’s punitive apparatus has used since then to penalise certain cultural expressions to the detriment of others during the democratic period. All this is approached from the methodological descriptive perspective and analytical of the discourse, and seeks to problematize the question of the limits of freedom of expression, establishing past-present links, which are affecting the Spanish cultural environment to this day.