From popular demons and moral panics in 1960's Mexican rock and roll

Abstract

What is a popular demon and a moral panic? ¿How does a teenager who
listens to rock and roll become a popular demon capable of unleashing
moral panic in a conservative society like Mexico? The present text aims to
reveal the answers to these questions, taking as a reference the theoretical
proposal that the sociologist Stanley Cohen gave, about how the media promote the construction of these two categories based on the excessive
exacerbation of the facts in those who are involved some young people, for
the Mexican case, the process that followed the construction of popular
demons and moral panics around rock and roll of the sixties will be analyzed, taking as an example of this construction, some notes from the televisión programming magazine of the Teleguía, as well as other publications
where it is made clear that the construction of popular demons and moral
panics around rock continued even decades later.