Larrikins : a history / Melissa Bellanta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellanta, Melissa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subculture--Australia--History.

Subculture.

Youth--Australia--History.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

St. Lucia, Queensland ; Chicago : University of Queensland Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Australia has often been said to possess a "larrikin streak," from the <I>Stiffy and Mo</I> cartoons and the true-blue Crocodile Hunter to the characters in the silent film <I>The Sentimental Bloke</I>. When it first emerged around 1870, <I>larrikin</I> was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage, working-class hell-raisers who populated dance halls and cheap theaters, and this account journeys through the street-based youth subculture known as larrikinism between 1870 and 1920, swerving through the streets of Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney. Offering a glimpse into the lives of Australia's

Contents:

Cover; Author biography; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figure 1.; Figure 2.; Figure 3.; Introduction: The true blue Aussie larrikin; Chapter One: The leary bloke; Chapter Two: The brazen girl; Chapter Three: The pull of the push; Chapter Four: The Mount Rennie outrage; Chapter Five: Larrikin style; Chapter Six: All the world's a football field; Chapter Seven: The demise of the flash larrikin; Afterword: Larrikinism since 1930; Acknowledgments; Endnotes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7022-3912-7

OCLC:

811507544