Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain Clashing with Fascism

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.<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>By analyzing young people's everyday acts of resistance <i>Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain</i> offers a fascinating account of Madrid's youth and their role in the transition to the modern Spanish democracy.