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 culture’s basic contribution to that culture of contestation was related to the ways in which it gave expression to young people’s 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 people’s 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.