London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 Hardback
by Felix Fuhg
Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:441 pages, 16 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 441 p. 16 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:21/05/2021
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- ISBN:9783030689674
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:441 pages, 16 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 441 p. 16 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:21/05/2021
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- ISBN:9783030689674
