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Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781350038479 BibTeX citation key: ValenciaGarcia2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Superman", Reception, Spain (country), Superhero, USA, Youth culture Creators: Valencia-García Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (New York) |
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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-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, 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. Table of contents Acknowledgements (ix) An Introduction (1) 1. Making a Scene (7) Epilogue: Uncertain Times (193) Notes (195) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |