Gli inni controculturali della Banda Trapera del río (1978-1979): rock urbano e ribellione

After forty years of dictatorship, following the death of Francisco Franco in November 1975, Spain began a slow process of transition to democracy. Soon the spirit of rebellion long suppressed by the Caudillo regime originated alternative, challenging and bitterly confrontational forms of culture in the country. In the sphere of popular music, urban rock or rock de barrio was born, a musical genre that ib disruptively embodied the iconoclastic rage of the youth of the time. One of the most representative groups of these new strains was La Banda Trapera del Río, a Catalan group formed in 1976 in the Barcelona suburb of Cornellá de Llobregat and considered by much of the critics to be Spain’s first punk band. In the irreverent and provocative lyrics of their early days La Banda Trapera del Río and its leader Morfi Grei interpreted with transgressive force the malaise of the urban suburbs in the early years of post-Francoism.