Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain - Clashing with Fascism

How did kids, hippies and punks challenge a fascist dictatorship and imagine an impossible dream of an inclusive future? This book explores the role of youth 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 underground 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-Garcia 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 Madrilena''. 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, A authoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain offers a fascinating account of Madrid''s youth and their role in the transition to the modern Spanish democracy.>

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• Authors: Valencia-Garcia Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia, Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia, Louie Dean (Texas State Universit Valencia-Garcia, Louie Dean (Texas State University Valencia-Garcia, Louie Dean Valencia-García
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781350139527
• ISBN: 978-1-350-13952-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Fascism & Nazism, Archaeology, Far-right political ideologies and movements, History and Archaeology