| Teenagers: An American History Revised Edition Contributor(s): Palladino, Grace (Author) |
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ISBN: 046500766X ISBN-13: 9780465007660 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: As a defined entity "teenagers" did not exist prior to the 1940s. But in the 50 years since the last world war, teenagers have reshaped American culture and become a $200 billion consumer group avidly courted by marketers. This first important survey of how the 20th century youth culture was born, made distinct, and accepted as a market examines everything from Andy Hardy and Elvis Presley to SEVENTEEN magazine and MTV. Index. Photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Teenagers - History | United States - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 305.23 |
| LCCN: 95049125 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nobody worried about "teenagers" prior to the 1940s. In fact, as a culturally or economically defined entity they did not exist. But in the 50 years since the last world war, when the term was first coined, teenagers have had an enormous impact on American culture. They have reshaped our language, our music, our clothes. They have changed forever the way we respond to authority. They have become a 200 billion consumer group avidly courted by marketers. And they have changed our culture, which will never again treat their demographic group merely as young adults.Teenagers ranges widely across American culture of the middle twentieth century to depict the shifting characterizations of teens from invisible young adults to young soldiers in training, to bobby soxers and zoot suiters, to rock 'n' rollers and juvenile delinquents, from hippies to savvy consumers. Grace Palladino examines everything from Andy Hardy and Elvis Presley to Seventeen magazine and MTV. She challenges those who decry teenage hedonism and immorality today, showing that modern disaffected teenagers, as in the past, are responding just as much to hypocritical adult behavior as to a commercial cult of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. |