The Dictatorship represented multiple transformations in the Chilean society, a process where young people were not exempted. By creating public organizations, media and various youth activities, the regime tried to forge new disciplined citizens, committed to the national reconstruction. In this article I present that process, considering the ways in which the Dictatorship was responsible for certain artistic-cultural expressions; specifically rock music during its first ten years. From the analysis of different sources (especially interviews with musicians conducted by the author and press review of that time) I concluded that the regime acted simultaneously repressing it, supporting it and using it to distract, because within the regime coexisted opposite points of views about youth and culture.
Keywords:
rock music, dictatorship, youth
Author Biography
Daniel Sierra, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Licenciado en Historia de la Universidad de Chile. Magíster (c) en Historia de Chile, Universidad de Santiago. E-Mail: danielernestosierra@gmail.com.
Sierra, D. (2020). No excess and genuinely chilean: Discourse and practice of the dictatorship on the rock music between 1973 and 1983. Última Década, 22(41), 125–149. Retrieved from https://ultimadecada.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/56155
