Across the Atlantic to Spain
By the time Joan Baez arrived in Spain in 1977 to perform for the first time, “No nos moverán” was already well known as a protest song against the country’s fascist regime. Generalísimo Francisco Franco, the country’s dictator, had died in 1975, but Spain had not yet made the transition to democrac...
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Zusammenfassung: | By the time Joan Baez arrived in Spain in 1977 to perform for the first time, “No nos moverán” was already well known as a protest song against the country’s fascist regime. Generalísimo Francisco Franco, the country’s dictator, had died in 1975, but Spain had not yet made the transition to democracy. Baez had been an international star for many years by then and was better-known in the Spanishspeaking world than ever before, following her well-received albumGracias a la vida, which had been released in 1974. She had refused to perform in Spain until that moment to avoid the |
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