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Crossroads. Music, poetry and literature
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Crossroads. Music, poetry and literature
Troubadours, kharjas, hymns, popular songs, sacred, secular or protest songs, the combination of rhythm and rhyme has allowed human beings to preserve memory, transmit new ideas, create spaces of coexistence. And although, over the centuries, poetry, music, and literature have become established as autonomous and independent arts, they continue to be found in that ancient gift of flow where Federico García Lorca and Leonard Cohen dance a Little Viennese Waltz; where the poet and musician Bob Dylan is recognized with the Nobel Prize. Because Times are changing and songs are also literature. The writers whose literary output does not forgo the sounds, songs, and music that inhabit the streets, bars, and bedrooms, and that resonates with love and discord, know this well. In La educación física, the third novel by Rosario Villajos, her protagonist is a 90s teen who listens to grunge and music in English only, although "the only indulgence she allows herself is that she continues to love Christina y Los Subterráneos." As in her previous books, in this novel the writer introduces music as a soundtrack of an era, as a way of defining the character and her relationship with her period. Songs - words aligned in a metric beat in sync with the music, where multiple blends and influences from all cultures of the world come together - are another way to create.
Christina Rosenvinge, singer, songwriter, poet, in her latest book, Debut.Cuadernos y canciones, reviews her 25-year musical career. In this intimate book, the author describes the songs and the times when they were written, testimonies of life fragments, places, meetings, experiences that took place offstage. Both creators will discuss the inter-artistic relationships that occur between music, poetry and literature, both in their lives and in their books.
Participants: Christina Rosenvinge, Rosario Villajos
Moderator: Marta Fernández
Thursday, December 05
18:00 to 18:50