The “Preaches and Declarations” of the newspaper “Blitz”: the first social network for Portuguese youth

AEven those who weren’t readers will know that the weekly “Biltz”, which started in November 1984, dealt with music. The brand was one of the important stones in the construction of urban and modern popular culture in the new Portuguese democracy, contributing to producing tastes, pointing out trends and informing about pop and rock. Today is a siteafter having been a magazine. At the end of 1984, we were living in times of the IMF and the Central Bloc, of unemployment, late wages, hunger, but there was also a will. And a very young population with enormous regenerative energy, a mix of locals with tens of thousands coming from the former colonies in Africa. In common with many, music, cinema, video, the small computers that appeared in the meantime, fashion, visuals and shows and strong and symbolic places such as Frágil (opened in 1982) and Rock Rendez-Vous (in 1980) .