Antiauthoritarian youth culture in Francoist Spain : clashing with fascism / Louie Dean Valencia-García.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valencia-García, Louie Dean, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Spain--Social conditions.

Youth.

Youth--Political activity.

Spain.

Social conditions.

Youth--Political activity--Spain.

Spain--Politics and government--1939-1975.

Politics and government.

Youth--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xviii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Summary:

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-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, Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain offers a fascinating account of Madrid's youth and their role in the transition to the modern Spanish democracy.

Contents:

Preface: Indignant Youth An Introduction

1. Making a Scene

2. To Study is to Serve Spain

3. The Revolt of the Youth

4. Truth, Justice and the American Way in Spain

5. The Penetration of Franco's Spain

6. Clashing with Fascism

7. Madrid Kills Me Epilogue: Today: Uncertain Times

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-243) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version : Valencia-García, Louie Dean. Antiauthoritarian youth culture in Francoist Spain.

ISBN:

9781350038479

1350038474

OCLC:

982650272