Teenage : the creation of youth culture

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Title:

Teenage : the creation of youth culture

Author:

Savage, Jo.

ISBN:

9781845951467

Personal Author:

Savage, Jo.

Publication Information:

London : Pimlico, 2008.

Physical Description:

xviii, 549 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

General Note:

Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2007.

"The creation of youth 1875-1945"--Cover.

Abstract:

In 1945, just as the war was ending, the 'teenager' arrived. This is the story of how we got to that moment. Jon Savage goes back to 1875 (when the first bestselling teenage memoir appeared and the first teenage mass murderer was tried), and takes us all the way through to the death of Anne Frank in 1945.

Subject Term:

Teenagers -- Europe -- History.

Teenagers -- United States -- History.

Teenagers and adults -- History.

Conflict of generations -- History.

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Summary

* The inspiration behind the film TEENAGE, narrated by Ben Whishaw and Jena Malone *

This is a history never described before - the century and a half of ferment, folly and angst that created a separate Teen Age in Europe and America.

We roam London, New York, Paris and Berlin with hooligans and Apaches; explore free love with Rupert Brooke and eternal youth with Peter Pan; we meet flappers and zootsuiters and the Bright Young Things, the unemployoed and the Lost Generation.

Meanwhile the book rings with music, from Ragtime to Swing, and the stories come fast and furious, comic, poignant, painfully moving.

In 1945, 'the teenager' arrived. This is the story of how we got to that moment.