Title: Refried Elvis
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Politics and culture, Politics and government, Social aspects, History and criticism, Youth movement, Social values, Civilization, Music, Rock music, Social aspects of Music, Nationalism, History, Youth movements, Popular music, history and criticism, Music, social aspects, Student movements, Mexico, social life and customs, Popular culture, mexico, Civilisation, Politique et gouvernement, Mouvements de jeunesse, Histoire, Rock (Musique), Histoire et critique, Musique, Aspect social, Politique et culture, Valeurs sociales, Nationalisme, General
Places: Mexico, Mexico City
Time periods: 1946-1970, 1970-1988, 20th century
LC classification: F1235 .Z65 1999