MUSIC
Spain's musical output includes a long history of innovation in Western and Andalusian classical music , as well as a domestic popular music industry, and diverse styles of folk music . In addition, modern Spain has a number of performers in the fields of rock and roll, heavy metal , punk rock and hip hop .

The best-known variety of Spanish folk music is probably flamenco , a diverse genre created by Andalusian Roma . Flamenco has been known since at least the 1770s , and has been through several cycles of dwindling popularity and rebirth. The style has produced many of the most famous Spanish musicians, including singer Camarón de la Isla and guitarist Carlos Montoya .

Outside of flamenco, regional Spanish folk music includes the distinct Basque trikitixa and accordion music, Galician and Asturian gaita ( bagpipe ) and Aragonese jota . Though some folk traditions have died out or are moribund, some retain great popularity and have been modernized and adapted to new instruments, styles and formats. These include the popular Celtic music of Galicia, the singer-songwriter tradition of nova canço and New Flamenco .

The first distinctly modern popular music of Spain began to appear in about 1959 . Soon, Ye-Yé dominated the Spanish charts, followed by the import of American and British rock, French singers and other pop stars.


Flamenco is the most popular dance for in Spain.

FILM
While mid-century Spanish directors such as Luis Buñuel worked mainly in exile, film has prospered in Spain since the reestablishment of constitutionalism. Among the leading late 20th- and early 21st-century Spanish film directors are: