Sex, Thugs And Rock 'n' Roll : Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenemore, Mark.

Series:

Monographs in German History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subculture--Germany (East).

Subculture.

Teenage boys--Germany (East).

Teenage boys.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Summary:

A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject to a number of competing influences. For young men from the working class, in particular, a conflict developed between the culture they inherited from their parents and the new official culture taught in schools. Merging with street gangs, new youth cultures took shape, which challenged authority and provided an alternative vision of modernity. Taking their fashion cues, music and icons from t

Contents:

SEX, THUGS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. GENDERING THE GDR; CHAPTER 3. REMASCULINISATION; CHAPTER 4. RE-EDUCATION; CHAPTER 5. A TEENAGE 'REVOLUTION'?; CHAPTER 6. STREET CULTURE; CHAPTER 7. SEXING UP SOCIALISM; CHAPTER 8. REMILITARISATION; CHAPTER 9. ROCK 'N' ROLL; CHAPTER 10. MANUFACTURING CONSENT; CHAPTER 11. MAKING MEN OUT OF THEM; CHAPTER 12. PREDATORY MALES; CHAPTER 13. CONCLUSION; POSTSCRIPT: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780857452290

0857452290