Teenagers
Subtitle: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781869408688
Subjects: Youth, new zealand; New zealand, social life and customs; New zealand, history
Description: "Teenagers" is a ground-breaking history of young people in New Zealand from the nineteenth century to the 1960s. Through their diaries and letters, photographs and drawings, we meet young New Zealanders as they transition from children to adults: sealers and bushfellers, factory girls and newspaper boys, the male `mashers' of the 1880s and the female `flappers' of the 1910s and 20s, schoolgirls and rock'n'rollers, larrikins and louts. By taking us inside the lives of young New Zealanders, the book illuminates from a new angle large-scale changes in our society: the rise and fall of domestic service, the impact of compulsory education, the movement of Pakeha and then Maori from country to city, the rise of consumer culture and popular psychology. "Teenagers" shows us how young people made sense of their personal and social transformations: in language and song and dress, at dances and picnics and social clubs, in talking and playing and reading. "Teenagers" provides an intimate and evocative insight into the lives of young people and the history of New Zealand.