Download PDF by Eric Zolov: Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture

By Eric Zolov

ISBN-10: 0520215141

ISBN-13: 9780520215146

This robust examine exhibits how America's largest export, rock and roll, grew to become an immense impression in Mexican politics, society, and tradition. From the coming of Elvis in Mexico throughout the Nineteen Fifties to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture circulation via the overdue Sixties, Eric Zolov makes use of rock and roll to light up Mexican historical past via those charged a long time and into the Seventies. This attention-grabbing narrative strains the rechanneling of teen energies clear of political protest within the wake of the 1968 scholar stream and into counterculture uprising, referred to as La Onda (The Wave). Refried Elvis debts for the occasions of 1968 and their aftermath through revealing a mounting hindrance of patriarchal values, associated either to the adventure of modernization through the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties and to the bounds of cultural nationalism as promoted by means of a one-party state.

Through an engrossing research of tune and picture, in addition to fanzines, newspapers, govt files, corporation experiences, and various interviews, Zolov indicates how rock song tradition turned a unstable commodity strength, whose creation and intake concepts have been formed through intellectuals, country enterprises, transnational and native capital, musicians, and enthusiasts alike. greater than a background of Mexican rock and roll, Zolov's examine demonstrates the politicized nature of tradition less than authoritarianism, and gives a nuanced dialogue of the consequences of cultural imperialism that deepens our figuring out of gender kinfolk, social hierarchies, and the very meanings of nationwide identification in a transnational era.

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