INVESTIGADORES
MANZANO Adriana Valeria
artículos
Título:
Rock nacional, Revolutionary Politics, and the Making of a Youth Culture of Contestation in Argentina, 1966--1976
Autor/es:
MANZANO, VALERIA
Revista:
The Americas: An Interamerican Quarterly of Cultural History
Editorial:
Drexel University
Referencias:
Lugar: Philadelphia; Año: 2012 vol. 68
ISSN:
0003-1615
Resumen:
Through the lens of the gendered history of rock
nacional, this article reconstructs the making of a youth culture of
contestation that, in the intersection of the 1960s and 1970s,
questioned alternatively the premises of cultural conservatism and
political repression in Argentina. It argues that rock cultures basic
contribution to that culture of contestation was related to the ways in
which it gave expression to young peoples discontent with
authoritarianism at the same that it offered them a symbolic space for
shaping fraternal bonds while challenging patriarchal arrangements and
enacting alternative forms of being a man. That fraternity of
long-haired boys appropriated strands from transnational, music-based
countercultural practices and bodily styles, and created forms of
sociability centered on leisure and enjoyment, at odds with the
cultural conservatism that crossed through the Argentine sixties and
the values that premised the hegemonic arrangements of masculinity. In
contrast with other Latin American cases, while respecting rock
nacional and its constituency, militants and intellectuals within the
revolutionary left strove for ideologicizing its practices. They
witnessed its potential for articulating social protest and for giving
expression to young peoples anti-authoritarianism, but they belittled
what rock nacional represented as cultural politics. By 1974, however,
both revolutionary politics and rock nacional became the targets of a
rightist backlash that promised to re-establish hierarchies and order
in the political and cultural fields alike.