INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND ROCK: ANOTHER WAY TO STUDY THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ECONOMYc

University students in degree programs that analyze the world economy are not usually very enthusiastic about studying contemporary economic history. However, the teaching and learning system facilitates the use of active methodologies, both in lectures and especially in practical sessions, which encourage greater student participation. In this academic context, it is possible to connect the purely economic content of the subject with a topic that is highly attractive to students: popular music, through its most universal expression of the last seventy years: rock music. This article shows the evolution of the rock phenomenon within the international context of the so-called Third Industrial Revolution. The objective is to demonstrate the appeal that linking an element of protest and social discontent, such as that found in rock, with the most relevant events and elements that have defined the international economic order since the Second World War can generate among students.