Mistérios e maravilhas: O rock sinfónico/progressivo em Portugal na década de 1970
2015; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0871-9705
Autores Tópico(s)Youth, Politics, and Society
ResumoIn the second half of the 1960s, the international expansion of pop-rock was essential in shaping the development of new values related to an emergent youth culture. These values were reflected in the new repertoire, associated in terms of the media with the recently created world of ‘rock’. While the process of consolidation of this category implies a movement towards the kind of appreciation usually associated with the classical world, the distinction between rock and pop music depending on a supposed ‘profundity’ that allows the legitimation of the first as ‘form of art’, it is in the process of segmentation into new variants that this movement would be deepened. This segmentation, especially in England, enabled the establishment of a new category called progressive rock, with some musicians searching for inspiration among particular aspects of the Western classical tradition. In Portugal, the performance of new pop music was a regular practice among dance groups during the 1960s. However, it was only at the beginning of the 1970s that some Portuguese musicians began to show the first signs of identification with rock that aimed to be ‘symphonic’, apparent in the configuration of the new repertoire. This paper discusses the particular cases of groups and artists such as Petrus Castrus, Ephedra, Psico, Jose Cid, Perspectiva and Tantra, as examples of this particular trend, also exploring the relations between them and the music industry, as well as their importance in the establishment of the rock concert as a performance typology in Portugal.
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