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Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid
Francisco Fernandez de Alba (Author)
9781487501488
Hardback, published 26 March 2020
192 pages, 8 b&w illustrations
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.4 kg
"Sex, Drugs, and Fashion expertly rewrites social history in the 1970s and offers a new and earlier context for the overfamiliar movida." - Paul Julian Smith, CUNY Graduate Center (Revista Hispánica Moderna)
During the last decade of Franco’s repressive rule, the Spanish outlook on sex, drugs, and fashion shifted dramatically, creating a favourable cultural environment for the return of democracy. Exploring changes in urban planning, narratives of sexual and gender identity, recreational drug use, and fashion design during the seventies, Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid argues that it was during this decade that the material and emotional conditions for the groundbreaking transition to democracy first began to develop. Thanks in part to a mass media saturated with international trends, citizens of Madrid began to adopt practices, behaviours, and attitudes that would ultimately render Franco’s military dictatorship obsolete. This cultural history examines these modest but irreversible changes in the way people lived and thought about their lives during the last decade of the regime’s creed. Not a revolution necessarily, but transformational nevertheless, these changes in collective sensibility eased the political transition to democracy and the emergence of the 1980s’ cultural movement la Movida.
List of Illustrations Introduction. 1970s Madrid: The Dawn of a New Sensibility 1. Madrid: Planning the Democratic City Conclusion: Legacies of the 1970s: The Origins of la Movida Notes
Acknowledgments
2. Sex: Building Plural Communities
3. Drugs: The Burden of Modernity
4. Fashion: Democracy Prêt-à-Porter
Works Cited
Index