Daily life and youth culture in Bogota

Abstract

This story begins in the 1920s, with the first manifestations of youth participation in the urban environment. Subsequently, the cultural and social transformations that occurred in the 1950s provided the context in which young people emerged as vital social actors in the dynamics of the city. However, in the 60's and 70's when their cultural expressions show a defined identity. In the 80s, the proposals of cultural homogenization and the expansion of the consumer market burst into those groups and areas that had traditionally been forgotten as marginalized. Popular youth cultures, strengthened in previous decades, face new processes of cultural appropriation and borrowing.