Urban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980s Spain

Rethinking the Movida

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Foreign Languages, Language Arts
Cover of the book Urban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980s Spain by MariteUsozdela Fuente, Taylor and Francis
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Author: MariteUsozdela Fuente ISBN: 9781351537872
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: July 5, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: MariteUsozdela Fuente
ISBN: 9781351537872
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: July 5, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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