Life trajectories in historical perspective: Joey Ramone and Marky Ramone

Abstract

this article aims to discuss some elements that marked the generation of American youth of the 1960s and early 1970s, which, after the end of World War II, experienced a period of political and social discontent that led to numerous conservative behaviors established so far. In this way, we will analyze the autobiographical and biographical works of musicians Marky Ramone and Joey Ramone in order to identify how young people before becoming world rockers faced the political and cultural dilemmas of the United States, such as the repulsion of war of Vietnam, the friction with the generation of his parents and the denial of the hippie movement. We will discuss that the emergence of the counterculture presented several aspects, and that, in contradiction of those who only wanted peace and love, on the other hand, there was something more aggressive in the urban suburbs, which later came to structure itself as the punk movement. All these elements permeate the uncertainties of the youth of our characters, who are the focus of the research, and that, with the use of biographical analysis as sources of historical research, we will explore the methodological possibilities of this theoretical field to consolidate the argumentation of this search.