Title: Teenage nervous breakdown : music and politics in the post-Elvis age /
Authors: Walley, David.
Publisher: Insight Books,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Music Social aspects United States History; Popular culture United States History
Abstract: Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Age details how a state of mind - which came out of 1950s-60s high school "American Graffiti" culture and peer group morals - was successfully transformed and commercially exploited. The book shows how, because of this, our lives and our world (if not the nature of American democracy) in the 1990s have been altered in the process. David Walley shrewdly points out that in this post-Elvis age we are hostages to the corrosive effects of an increasingly celebrity-driven consumerism, itself the result of the cumulative effects of the commercial exploitation of high-school peer group dynamics.
Contents: "This, Here. Soon" -- Who Stole the Bomp (from the Bomp Sha Bomp)? -- Blame It on the Sixties -- Boxers or Briefs? Music Politics in the Post-Elvis Age -- Play School: You Can Dress for It, but You Can't Escape It -- The Twinkie Defense -- Asking Alice: Fighting for the Right to Party -- Don't Touch Me There: Whatever Happened to Foreplay? -- White Punks on Dope: Why Camille Paglia Is Academe's Answer to Betty Page -- Da Capo.