1. La 'Princesa' de Joaquín Sabina: nostalgia a caballo entre el amor y el miedo.
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González del Pozo, Jorge
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SPANISH songs , *DRUG addiction , *HEROIN abuse , *URBAN life , *CULTURAL movements ,SOCIAL aspects ,SPANISH social conditions ,SPANISH history, 1975-2014 - Abstract
The article examines the role of heroin in the "movida madrileña," or the urban culture of a Spain recently liberated from decades of dictatorship, in the 1980s through an analysis of the song "Princesa" by Spanish singer and poet Joaquín Sabina. It explains that the song, about a drug addict who robs a pharmacy in search of any substance that will alleviate her chronic heroin habit, shows that love is not enough to overcome drug addiction. The article notes that allusions to the libertine urban life of this period appear in other Spanish artistic genres as well, including the writings of Spanish author Luis Antonio de Villena and Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.
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- 2010
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