Journal
The Beat Generation: The Aesthetics of Dissent
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the United States entered a period ofeconomic expansion and social conformity. Beneath suburban prosperity, however, aquieter current of dissatisfaction began to gather...
Forty Years of Silence: The Euphoria of "La Movida Madrileña".
In the early 1980s, Spain was awakening from nearly four decades of Francoist dictatorship. After years of moral repression under General Francisco Franco’s authoritarian regime from 1939 to 1975, the...
Modern Jazz | Resistance & Rhythm in a Divided America
Between the late 1940s and the early 1970s, modern jazz flourished in a countrydeeply fractured by racial segregation, a reality that shaped not only the music but alsothe way many...
Mod Culture | Urban Rebellion of the 1960s
The Mod movement emerged in late 1950s and early 1960s Britain, a country still bearing the scars of the Second World War, where austerity, rationing and social rigidity lingered. Most Mods...