Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism
Louie Dean Valencia-García, "Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism"
English | ISBN: 1350038474 | 2018 | 272 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1350038474 | 2018 | 272 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This book explores the role of young people in shaping a democratic Spain, focusing on their urban performances of dissent, their consumption of censored literature, political-literary magazines and comic books and their involvement in a newly developed punk scene.
After forty years of dictatorship, Madrid became the centre of both a young democracy and a vibrant artistic scene by the early 1980s. Louie Dean Valencia-García skillfully examines how young Spaniards occupied public plazas, subverted Spanish cultural norms and undermined the authoritarian state by participating in a postmodern punk subculture that eventually grew into the 'Movida Madrileña'. In doing so, he exposes how this antiauthoritarian youth culture reflected a mixture of sexual liberation, a rejection of the ideological indoctrination of the dictatorship, a reinvention of native Iberian pluralistic traditions and a burgeoning global youth culture that connected the USA, Britain, France and Spain.
By analyzing young people's everyday acts of resistance,
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