With my heart here
State, Market, Youth, and the Association of Rock Workers in the Transition to Democracy (1991-1995)

In December 1991, the first musicians' union was formed after the dictatorship ended. The Rock Workers' Association, ATR, was a collective that brought together a large part of the music scene linked to rock, pop, and other related genres during the first years of Patricio Aylwin's government, in addition to including technicians, communicators, and industry agents.

As three decades since the end of the Dictatorship and the return to Democracy are met, and considering the constituent process opened after the social outbreak of October 2019, the findings of this research acquire particular relevance. The history of the Association of Rock Workers is also a history of the Chilean Transition in its early, complex, and contradictory years. A microhistory with a social focus on culture, about young people and rockers in the early years of the return to democracy.