Book RAPADOS - Carles Viñas

RAPADOS - Carles Viñas - A history of the native Skinhead subculture.
477 pages
In Spanish
Prologue by Kiko Amat
Epilogue by Fermin Muguruza

At the beginning of the eighties, the Skinhead style was initially concretized in cities such as Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. Soon, it spread and evolved in unison, defining the peculiarities that made it a unique and attractive style for a relevant segment of youth. The result of a doctoral thesis and years of research, the work reconstructs through interviews, documents, fanzines, bibliography and testimonies the origins, development, process of politicization and popularization that characterized the skin style in Spain based on the analysis of a set of elements – aesthetic, cultural, sporting, musical and iconographic – that allow us to interpret its heterogeneous journey. Far from the accumulation of previous alarmist stories, Rapados offers a rigorous, extensive and detailed overview of a subcultural concretion that at its peak fascinated thousands of young people.


"A lot of memories are piled up" - Fermin Muguruza

"Carles Viñas, an undisputed specialist on the subject and an incomparable subcultural archaeologist, has carried out the task in a neat way, interlectually impeccable, and with ambitions of exhaustiveness. Rapados has nothing to envy to canonical books of British subcultural social studies" - Kiko Amat