Teenage
Subtitle: The Creation of Youth Culture
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: April 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9780670038374
Subjects: Popular Culture; Sociology Of Youth; History; Sociology; History: World; Children's Studies; Life Stages - Teenagers; Popular Culture - General; History / Social History; Social History; 20th century; Europe; Teenagers; Youth
Description: Teenagers--as we have come to define them--were not, journalist Savage tells us, born in the 1950s of rockers and Beatniks, when most histories would begin. Rather, the teenager as icon can be traced back to the 1890s, when the foundations for the new century were laid in urban youth culture. This cultural history charts the spread of the American ideal of youth through England and Europe and around the world. From Peter Pan to Oscar Wilde, Anne Frank to the Wizard of Oz, Savage documents youth culture's development as a commodity and an industry from the turn of the last century to its current driving force in the global economy. Fusing film, music, literature, diaries, fashion, and art, this epic cultural history is a surprising chronicle of modern life sure to appeal to pop culture fans, social history buffs, and anyone who has ever been a teenager.--From publisher description.