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Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism

Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism

Valencia-García, Louie Dean

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 1350038474
ISBN13: 9781350038479
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 17 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Finalist for the European Studies Book Award

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.

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