Sex, drugs, and fashion in 1970s Madrid de Alba, Francisco Fernandez
Sex, drugs, and fashion in 1970s Madrid,
2020, 2020, 2019, 2020-02-24, Letnik:
50., 50
eBook
"During the last decade of Franco's repressive rule, the Spanish outlook on sex, drugs, and fashion shifted dramatically, creating a favorable 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."--
For hundreds of years, Barcelona and Madrid have shared a deep rivalry. Throughout history, they have competed in practically every aspect of social life, sport, politics, and culture. While ...competition between cities is commonplace in many nations around the world, in the case of Barcelona and Madrid it has been, on occasion, excessively antagonistic. Over time they have each tried to demonstrate that one was more modern than the other, or more avant-garde, or richer, or more athletic, and so on. Fortunately, the Spain of today is a democracy and every nation and region of the State has the liberty to act. As such, the rivalry between these two capitals has become productive not only for the cities themselves, but also for Spain as a whole. One hundred years ago, at the onset of the Historical Avant-Garde in Spain, the connections between Barcelona and Madrid consisted of a complicated web of politics, friendships, publications, and inter-art collaborations. Over the last century, the antagonistic relationship between these two cultural capitals has been dismissed as simply a fact of life and thereby scholars, for the most part, have focused only on Barcelona or Madrid when addressing this cultural moment. By delving deep into the myriad of cultural and political complexities that surround these two cities from the onset of Futurism (1909) to the arrival of Surrealism in Spain (1929), a complex social and cultural network is revealed. Networking between artists, poets, journalists and thinkers connected avant-garde Barcelona and Madrid, thereby creating synergy for this artistic and literary movement. In a hybrid, transdisciplarian, translingual and historical approach using a wide range of visual and textual artifacts, the complexity of interactions described here opens our imagination to new ways of thinking about culture.
Scholarship on urban culture and the senses has traditionally focused on the study of literature and the visual arts. Recent decades have seen a surge of interest in the effects of sound on the urban ...space and its population. These studies analyze how sound generates identities that are often fragmentary and mutually conflicting. They have also explored the rise of campaigns against the negative effects of noise on the nerves and health of the population. However, little research has been carried out on the impact of sound and music in areas of broader social and political concern, such as social aid, hygiene, and social control. Based on a detailed study of Madrid from the 1850s to the 1930s, this book argues that sound and music have played a key role in structuring the transition to modernity by helping to negotiate social attitudes and legal responses to problems such as poverty, insalubrity, and crime. Attempts to control the social groups that own unwanted musical practices such as organ-grinding and flamenco performances in taverns raised awareness about public hygiene, alcoholism, and crime and triggered legal reform in these areas. In addition to marginalizing and persecuting these musical practices, the authorities and the media used workhouse bands as instruments of social control to spread “aural hygiene” across the city and wipe out unwanted musical practices.
Sobre una muestra de 429 personas, 241 de género femenino y 188 masculino, a las que se entrevistó en el último cuatrimestre de 2021, se ha hecho un contraste de diferencia de medias así como de ...asociación basado en el V de Cramer, según la escala en la que estuviera el ítem que se considerara, en 34 preguntas referidas a las preferencias sobre el turismo en general y unas rutas de turismo cultural en la ciudad de Madrid en particular. Los resultados muestran diferencias estadísticamente significativas según el género, en cuestiones como: el deseo de viajar y realizar actividades turísticas; uso de internet en la preparación del viaje y/o durante el mismo; interés personal por los temas culturales; en el área geográfica sobre la que realizar las rutas; los/as acompañantes para la realización de la ruta cultural; etc. En cambio, en otras no se detectaron diferencias como en los ítems: número de elementos a incluir en la ruta; gasto a realizar en la misma; disponer de una página web de apoyo; el uso de una App; etc. Todo ello aporta información muy relevante de cara al diseño de rutas culturales, no solo para el caso de referencia, si no de otras que pudieran desarrollarse en el futuro. Esto es completamente novedoso porque no hay trabajos previos que consideren el género como elemento determinante del diseño de rutas turísticas culturales
Madrid Jules Stewart, Helen Crisp
2020, 2021
eBook
Spain's top city for tourism, Madrid attracts more than six million visitors a year. In this book, Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart not only place visitor attractions in their historical perspective, ...relating the story of a city and its people through the centuries, but they also offer carefully curated listings that give a nod to well-known attractions and sites, as well as hidden gems. Spain's political and art capital, with its "Golden Triangle" of museums and myriad art galleries, Madrid is also a city of dazzling nightlife, with a profusion of cafés and bars. Offering in-depth insight into the history of Madrid along with a view—from fiestas to football—into life in the city today, this is the story of a vibrant, energetic metropolis, one that remains an enigma to many outsiders.
In this book, the reader is taken on a fascinating journey through some of Madrid´s multilingual and multicultural schools, revealing the role of linguistic practices in constructing inequality and ...educational failure. The exciting discussion of these issues is particularly important in a globalized world where, on a daily basis, children enter multilingual and multicultural schools in which they face unknown educational practices and languages.
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