By Patrick Barr-Melej

ISBN-10: 146963256X

ISBN-13: 9781469632568

ISBN-10: 1469632578

ISBN-13: 9781469632575

Patrick Barr-Melej right here illuminates sleek Chilean background with an remarkable chronicle and reassessment of the sixties and seventies. in the course of a interval of large political and social strife that observed the election of a Marxist president by way of the phobia of an army coup in 1973, a youth-driven, transnationally attached counterculture smashed onto the scene. Contributing to a surging historiography of the era's Latin American counterculture, Barr-Melej attracts on media and firsthand interviews in documenting the intertwining of youngster and counterculture with discourses rooted in school and get together politics. targeting "hippismo" and an esoteric stream known as Poder Joven, Barr-Melej demanding situations a couple of winning assumptions approximately tradition, politics, and the Left less than Salvador Allende's "Chilean street to Socialism."

While countercultural attitudes towards leisure drug use, gender roles and sexuality, rock track, and consumerism motivated many youths at the Left, the preponderance of leftist leaders shared a extra conservative cultural sensibility. This uncovered, Barr-Melej argues, a level of intergenerational dissonance inside of leftist ranks. And whereas the attract of latest and heterodox cultural values and practices between teenagers grew, an array of constituencies from the Left to the proper berated counterculture in nationwide media, speeches, colleges, and different settings. This public discourse of contempt eventually contributed to the fierce repression of nonconformist early life tradition following the coup.

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