Refried Elvis
Subtitle: the rise of the Mexican counterculture
By: Eric Zolov.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Youth movement -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History -- 20th century; Rock music -- Mexico -- History and criticism; Music -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Politics and culture -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Social values -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Mexico -- Civilization -- 20th century; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1946-1970; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1970-1988
Other titles: Rise of the Mexican counterculture
Description: "This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to illuminate Mexican history through these charged decades and into the 1970s. This fascinating narrative traces the rechanneling of youth energies away from political protest in the wake of the 1968 student movement and into counterculture rebellion, known as La Onda (The Wave). 'Refried Elvis' accounts for the events of 1968 and their aftermath by revealing a mounting crisis of patriarchal values, linked both to the experience of modernization during the 1950s and 1960s and to the limits of cultural nationalism as promoted by a one-party state"--Publisher's website.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-338) and index.