Last season of innocence
Subtitle: the teen experience in the 1960s
By: Victor Brooks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781442209176; 9781442209183
Subjects: Nineteen sixties; Teenagers; History
Description: Last Season of Innocence discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and the first year of college in the 1960s. These are the young people who read Seventeen and Mad, watched more television than their older siblings, and tended to listen to 45 rpm singles or "mono" LPs rather than the more sophisticated stereo albums of their older siblings. Substantial numbers of these teens could and did join political protests, but they also engaged in a more personal daily struggle with school dress codes and parental intrusion on social life. In a nation where a third of the population was under nineteen, they were hardly invisible, but their experience seems to have been marginalized by the twenty-somethings who largely redefined the meaning of the youth culture and took center stage in doing so. Brooks offers a unique account of the much-chronicled 1960s by examining the experiences of these preteens and teenagers. -- Book description from Amazon website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Teen life in 1959: the gateway to the sixties; title: Teen family life and social life; title: High school, USA; title: Teen beat: the twist to the Beatles; title: Teens on screen; title: Teens in transition: home room to dorm room; title: Teen consumers and adolescent ambassadors; title: Coping with the generation gap; title: The teen music explosion, 1964-1969: myth and reality; title: Teens at war; title: Visualizing teens, 1964-1969; title: Yesterday once again: the sixties teen experience as history.