Urban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980s Spain
Subtitle: Rethinking the Movida
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781909662445
Subjects: Social movements; Spain, history; Twentieth century; Spain, social life and customs
Description: During the 1980s, the urban youth movement known as la movida transformed the Spanish cultural landscape, particularly in the country's capital, Madrid. After a four-decade long dictatorship, artists and thinkers sought to make the most of their newly found freedoms. The vibrancy, optimism and aesthetic heterogeneity of the period are best captured in contemporary ephemera - in the fanzines and magazines that provided movida participants with an immediate and largely unmediated outlet for their creative experiments. Among them, monthly arts magazine La Luna de Madrid is arguably the most iconic, and its preoccupation with urban space, identity, and postmodernity suggests that la movida was indeed more than 'just a teardrop in the rain', as some of its critics have suggested. --