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Teenagers, an American history, Grace Palladino

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Teenagers

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Grace Palladino

an American history

Nobody worried about "teenagers" prior to the 1940s. In fact, they did not exist. But in the fifty years since the last world war, when the term was 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. How did this influential group come into being, evolving from adults in training who went to work at age thirteen or so (if they could) and then disappeared into the general population? This is the first book to tell that story

The high school age -- Advise and consent : building adolescent character -- A New Deal for youth : "progressive" education and the National Youth Administration -- Swing shift : bobby soxers take the stage -- Andy Hardy goes to war : soldiers, defense workers, "V-girls, " and zoot suiters -- Do you know where your children area? : juvenile delinquency, teen canteens, and democratic solutions -- The advertising age : Seventeen, Eugene Gilbert, and the rise of the teenage market -- Great balls of fire : rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and the devil's music -- Stairway to heaven : the real life business of rock 'n' roll -- The perils of prosperity : teenage rebels, teenage sex, and the communist menace -- The content of their character : black teenagers and civil rights in the South -- A hard day's night : Beatles, boomers, and the bomb -- Lies my father told me : Berkeley, Vietnam, and the generation gap -- Up the down staircase : sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll