“Everything depends on anger and joy": The singers of intervention in the April Revolution

Abstract

The modern song of intervention was expressed in the mid-1960s under the impact of repression, the conditions of misery in which the people live and the colonial war. In the last years of the dictatorship, he acquired an important role in resistance and popular mobilization against the dictatorship, with a generation of singers inside the country and in exile, especially in France.

The anti-fascist unity cemented the unity of the intervention singers, although in the process of political and ideological differentiation to the left many of the controversies and dissidences were reflected in the way in which these singers were appreciated by sectors workers and students, mainly young and in radicalization accentuated.

The overthrow of the dictatorship on April 25, 1974, deepened this process of differentiation and led to a reconfiguration of this field with strong alignments, marked by political and ideological options, although in this plurality of expressions and understandings, the will to rescue the root culture And of making the song a weapon at the service of social emancipation constituted a common concern.