The "rebellious years" are the historical period of the twentieth century that probably more influenced what we are today.
In 1967 was published in Mexico, "Cien años de soledad", the famous novel by Garcia Marquez, called in the subtitle of the event. Ideally, it closes with the century magic of Macondo, and open the decade longer than the recent time. In those years, the "short century" seemed to dwell on himself and screwing in a ditch where innovations have had an extraordinary impact on the collective, at the crossroads of many hopes and many storms. The time, which seemed to run towards the embrace with the new millennium, before the revelation appears to inhibit scale hitherto unknown. They were not only years of lead, as argued by Giovanni Moro in his essay "Seventy Years", recently published by Einaudi. For this reason,this season deserves to be investigated and recalled.
The changes of costume and of "mentality" that have occurred in that short amount of time, can rightly be considered momentous.
The emergence of a protagonist youth concerned and through different fields: from behavior to lifestyles, music, spatial mobility policy, the radical behavior and slogans, and the spread of the Beat movement in major urban centers, behavior as "abnormal" (long hair, scruffy clothes, running away from home), the spread of the antiwar movement and antiwar; the "evidence of rebellion" in schools, the occupations of university faculties: all expressions of a world radically evolve.
E 'was rightly pointed out that the study of the sixties, understood the complexity of experiences and symbols, often contradictory and diverse, experienced and endorsed by the boys and girls Italians grew in those years, historians have placed them surveyed, faced with the necessity of using a multidisciplinary approach, able to give account of the diversity of ideas in the universe co-present youthful models mediated through television commercials and the first, to those conveyed by the cinema, the investigations press reports on major national newspapers and magazines, the growing attention given to youthful tastes radio. Documents previously neglected by scholars, have increased their relative weight within the set of sources under consideration. Among these songs and images.