Teenage The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945

by Savage, Jon

• ISBN13: 9780140254150
• ISBN10: 0140254153
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-25
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

Tradition holds that teenagers, as we think of them, were born in the 1950s as rockers and beatniks. In fact, all the basic tenets of postwar teen life-from consumer passions to emotional unrest-had been in place years before that. Opening in America in the 1890s, Teenage is the untold story of the era of ferment, folly, experimentation, and rebellion-from England's Bright Young Things of the 1920s to Germany's Wandervogel-that allowed the "Teen Age" to separate itself from the rest of society forever. In a monumental work of cultural investigative reporting, Jon Savage draws widely on film, music, literature high and low, fashion, politics, and art, and fuses popular culture, politics, and social history into a stunning chronicle of modern life. Book jacket.

Author Biography

-ôCompulsive reading . . . Teenage is a rich, rewarding book that makes an important contribution to cultural history.-ö
-ùCamille Paglia, The New York Times Book Review

-ôResonant . . . Savage explores . . . [an] array of teenager types, from the wild, sensational precursors to juvenile delinquency to the straight-laced good-citizen proto-preppie. It-'s Savage-'s claim to being a great historian, and it-'s mighty convincing.-ö
-ùThe Onion

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xv
1875-1904
Heaven and Hell: Marie Bashkirtseff and Jesse Pomeroy	p. 3
Nationalists and Decadents: The European Counterrevolution	p. 16
Hooligans and Apaches: Juvenile Delinquency and the Mass Media	p. 33
"A Sudden Vision of Heaven": L. Frank Baum and the Dreamland of Oz	p. 49
The American Century: G. Stanley Hall and Adolescence	p. 63
1904-1913
Peter Pan and the Boy Scouts: Imperial British Youth	p. 77
High School Freshmen and Factory Fodder: American Adolescence and Industry	p. 91
Wandervogel and Neo-Pagans: Europe's Back-to-Nature Movements	p. 101
Nickelodeons and Animal Dances: The American Dream Economy	p. 113
1912-1919
Invocation: The European Generation Gap	p. 131
Sacrifice: The War Dead and the Young Against the Old	p. 140
The Class of 1902: Juvenile Delinquency and the Great War	p. 157
Jazz Bands and Doughboys: American Youth Enters Europe	p. 169
1919-1929
Postwar Shocks: The Fascisti, the German Bunde, and the Woodcraft Folk	p. 181
Sheiks and Shebas: The American Youth Market	p. 197
The Cinderella Complex: The Problems of America's Mass Culture	p. 217
The Pursuit of Pleasure: The Bright Young People	p. 234
1930-1939
The Soldiers of an Idea: The Hitler Youth	p. 255
The Children's Army and the New Deal: American Adolescents in the Depression	p. 276
Biff Boys and the Red Menace: The Polarization of British Youth	p. 295
Jitterbugs and Ickies: American Swing and Youth Consumerism	p. 315
1939-1943
Conquerors and Overlords: The Hitler Youth at War and at Home	p. 335
Reluctant Conscripts and Socialist Heroes: British Youth at War	p. 345
Sub-Debs and GIs: American Adolescents in School and in Uniform	p. 360
German Swing Kids and French Zazous: Swing in Nazi Europe	p. 375
Zoot-Suiters and Victory Girls: American Unrest in 1943	p. 391
1942-1945
The Peaceful Invaders: American Soldiers and British Youth	p. 411
Helmuth Hubener, the White Rose, and Anne Frank: Resistance in Nazi Europe	p. 422
The Arrival of the Teenager: The Launch of Seventeen	p. 441
Year Zero: The Teenager Triumphant	p. 454
Acknowledgments	p. 467
Notes	p. 469
Index	p. 525
Illustration Credits	p. 551
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