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Galician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented
period of growth following the process of political and cultural
devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has
occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with
considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the
nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning
to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This
book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as
privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural
identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at
home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global
age is explored through different media texts (popular music,
cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and
deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity
dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the
rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The
book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of
the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic
exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender,
origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the
center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to
the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and
Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.
Galician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented
period of growth following the process of political and cultural
devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has
occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with
considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the
nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning
to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This
book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as
privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural
identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at
home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global
age is explored through different media texts (popular music,
cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and
deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity
dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the
rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The
book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of
the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic
exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender,
origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the
center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to
the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and
Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and
social milieu in which la Movida, an explosion of artistic
production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated
discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect
this experience with a broader national and international context
that takes it beyond the city of Madrid and outside the borders of
Spain. This collection of essays links the political and social
undertakings of this cultural period with youth movements in Spain
and other international counter-cultural or underground movements.
Moving away from biographical experiences or the identification of
further participants and works that belong to la Movida, the
articles collected in this volume situate this movement within the
political and social development of post-Franco Spain. Finally, it
also offers a reading of recent politically motivated recoveries of
this cultural phenomenon through exhibitions, state sponsored
documentaries, musicals, or tourist itineraries. The perception of
Spain as representative of a successful dual transition from
dictatorship to democracy and free market capitalism created a
"Spanish model" that has been emulated in countries like Portugal,
Argentina, Chile and Hungary, all formerly ruled by totalitarian
regimes. While social scientists study the promises, contradictions
and failures of the Spanish Transicion-especially on issues of
memory, repression, and (the lack of) reconciliation -our approach
from the humanities offers another vantage point to a wider
discussion of an unfinished chapter in recent Spanish history by
focusing on la Movida as the "cultural archive" whose cultural
transitions parallel the political and economic ones. The
transgressive, urban nature of this movement demonstrated an overt
desire, especially among Spanish youth, to reach onto a global
arena emulating the punk and new wave aesthetic of such cities as
London, New York, Paris, and Berlin. Art, design, film, music,
fashion during this period helped to forge a sense of a modern
urban identity in Spain that also reflected the tensions between
modernity and tradition, global forces and local values,
international mass media technology and regional customs.
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