Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain Clashing ith Fascism [Hardcover]

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?a 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?a'. 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 Spainoffers a fascinating account of Madrid's youth and their role in the transition to the modern Spanish democracy.

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
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

Louie Dean Valencia-Garc?ais Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University, USA. He has taught at Harvard University, USA, and held fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the United States Library of Congress and the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. He is an editor forEuropeNow, the monthly journal of the Council for European Studies at Colc+