Re-Interpreting Mexican Rock Music: Contemporary Youth
RE-INTERPRETING MEXICAN ROCK MUSIC: CONTEMPORARY YOUTH, POLITICS, AND THE MEXICAN STATE by MAGDELANA RED B.A., University of San Francisco, 2000 M.A., University of Texas at Austin, 2003 A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Colorado in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Journalism and Mass Communication 2012 This thesis entitled: Re-Interpreting Mexican Rock Music: Contemporary Youth, Politics, and the Mexican State written by Magdelana Red has been approved for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication _________________________________________ Dr. Robert Trager, Chair _________________________________________ Dr. Shu-Ling Berggreen _________________________________________ Dr. Robert Buffington _________________________________________ Dr. Isaac Reed _________________________________________ Dr. Nabil Echchaibi Date ____________________ The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signatories, and we find that both the content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards of scholarly work in the above mentioned discipline. IRB protocol # 0410.26 Copyright 2012, Magdelana Red Red, Magdelana Mae (Ph.D., Communication) Re-Interpreting Mexican Rock Music: Contemporary Youth, Politics, and the Mexican State Thesis directed by Professor Robert Trager This dissertation elaborates a theoretical intervention challenging accepted interpretations of the role of rock music in youth political expression and identity formation during the period following the Mexican government’s apertura, or opening, from the 1980s through the 2000s, a period that followed decades of censorship and tight government control of youth expression, popular culture, and national identity. In spite of the fact that youth under the age of twenty-four make up approximately forty-five percent of Mexico’s population, young people and their engagement with and creation of popular culture have been severely understudied.
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