Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350038479)

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-Garc僘 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 Madrile'. 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.

Author: Louie Dean Valencia-Garc僘
ISBN-10: 1350038474
ISBN-13: 9781350038479
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d