ABSTRACT
Basque pop musical protest crystallized an aesthetic and a soundtrack, and a prolific do-it-yourself praxis: festive spaces, a wave of squatting, fanzines, free radio stations and music. This chapter proposes an overview of the key anti-hegemonic cultural scenes in the Basque Country during the late 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The Basque Country has been constituted from the end of the nineteenth century by different historical narratives that articulate the national subject from diverse positions. From the 1960s, traces of traditional Basque language and culture acted as powerful magnets, since they were able to carry out symbolic apertures and blend with new cultural phenomena, giving rise to interesting mutations. The field of Basque pop music in particular is a privileged terrain of symbolic action, given that it is the new cultural phenomenon of the period, able to mobilize feelings and emotions.
