Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics
Subtitle: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta Rap, 1830-1996
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 12, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780312213954
Subjects: Popular Culture - General; Sociology - General; History; Social Science / Popular Culture; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science : Popular Culture - General; Social Science; Textbooks; Attitudes; Influence; Popular culture; United States; Youth; Sociology
First sentence: 'Language of the most disgusting kind is uttered, and plans of robberies, no doubt, concocted', claimed a letter to a London newspaper in 1838, urging suppression of the penny theatre 'nuisance'.