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London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 - Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music Felix Fuhg 2021 edition
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 - Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music
Felix Fuhg
This book examines the emergence of modern working-class youth culture through the perspective of an urban history of post-war Britain, with a particular focus on the influence of young people and their culture on Britain?s self-image as a country emerging from the constraints of its post-Victorian, imperial past.
Each section of the book ? Society, City, Pop, and Space ? considers in detail the ways in which working-class youth culture corresponded with a fast-changing metropolitan and urban society in the years following the decline of the British Empire.
Was teenage culture rooted in the urban experience and the transformation of working-class neighbourhoods? Did youth subcultures emerge simply as a reaction to Britain's changing racial demographic? To what extent did leisure venues and institutions function as laboratories for a developing British pop culture, which ultimately helped Britain re-establish its prominence on the world stage?
These questions and more are answered in this book.
443 pages, 16 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 443 p. 16 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 21, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9783030689674 |
| Publishers | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Pages | 441 |
| Dimensions | 220 × 155 × 35 mm · 660 g |
| Language | German |