Teenage : the creation of youth culture / Jon Savage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savage, Jon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenagers--History--20th century.

Teenagers.

Youth--History--20th century.

Youth.

Teenagers--Europe--History--20th century.

Teenagers--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

History.

Subculture--History--20th century.

Subculture.

Social history--20th century.

Social history.

United States.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xx, 551 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Creation of youth culture

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, 2007.

Summary:

Teenagers--as we have come to define them--were not, journalist Savage tells us, born in the 1950s of rockers and Beatniks, when most histories would begin. Rather, the teenager as icon can be traced back to the 1890s, when the foundations for the new century were laid in urban youth culture. This cultural history charts the spread of the American ideal of youth through England and Europe and around the world. From Peter Pan to Oscar Wilde, Anne Frank to the Wizard of Oz, Savage documents youth culture's development as a commodity and an industry from the turn of the last century to its current driving force in the global economy. Fusing film, music, literature, diaries, fashion, and art, this epic cultural history is a surprising chronicle of modern life sure to appeal to pop culture fans, social history buffs, and anyone who has ever been a teenager.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Pt. 1: 1875-1904. Heaven and hell : Marie Bashkirtseff and Jesse Pomeroy

Nationalists and decadents : the European counterrevolution

Hooligans and apaches : juvenile delinquency and the mass media

"A sudden vision of heaven" : L. Frank Baum and the dreamland of Oz

The American century : G. Stanley Hall and Adolescence

Pt. 2: 1904-1913. Peter Pan and the Boy Scouts : Imperial British youth

High school freshmen and factory fodder : American adolescence and industry

Wandervogel and neo-pagans : Europe's back-to-nature movements

Nickleodeons and animal dances : the American dream economy

Pt. 3: 1912-1919. Invocation : the European generation gap

Sacrifice : the war dead and the young against the old

The class of 1902 : juvenile delinquency and the Great War

Jazz bands and doughboys : American youth enters Europe

Pt. 4: 1919-1929. Postwar shocks : the Fascisti, the German Bunde, and the Woodcraft folk

Sheiks and shebas : the American youth market

The Cinderella complex : the problems of America's mass culture

The pursuit of pleasure : the bright young people

Pt. 5: 1930-1939. The soldiers of an idea : the Hitler Youth

The Children's Army and the New Deal : American adolescents in the Depression

Biff boys and the Red Menace : the polarization of British youth

Jitterbugs and ickies : American swing and youth consumerism

Pt. 6: 1939-1943. Conquerors and overlords : the Hitler Youth at war and at home

Reluctant conscripts and socialist heroes : British youth at war

Sub-debs and GIs : American adolescents in school and in uniform

German swing kids and French Zazous : swing in Nazi Europe

Zoot-suiters and Victory Girls : American unrest in 1943

Pt. 7: 1942-1945. The peaceful invaders : American soldiers and British youth

Helmuth Hübener, the White Rose, and Anne Frank : resistance in Nazi Europe

The arrival of the teenager : the launch of Seventeen

Year zero : the teenager triumphant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-523) and index.

ISBN:

9780670038374

0670038377

OCLC:

74987847