- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus (5 April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701163615
- ISBN-13: 978-0701163617
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 5.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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In 'England's Dreaming' Jon Savage explored the Britain of the 70s which gave birth to the Sex Pistols and Punk Rock in it's wider social, cultural and political context. In 'Teenage: The Creation of Youth - 1875-1945' Savage does the same thing but this time in respect to the emergence of youth culture in the first place.
Savage starts the book in his introduction by informing the reader that this is a 'prehistory of the teenager.' Inspired by Dick Hebdige's influential study 'Subculture-The Meaning of Style,' and by his own experience of the Punk scene in 70s London, Savage explains how he sought to discover the roots of what today we take for granted: namely the idea of adolescence as a seperate stage of life between childhood and adulthood, a specific cohort with loyalties to peer-group norms rather than those established by their parents and their parents culture.
Savage takes us on a tour which includes..... Fin De Siecle Paris, the waning power of Imperial Great Britain, the emerging militaristic power of Germany, juvenile delinquency, Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde, 'Hooligans,' The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, G. Stanley Hall, Boy Scouts, Ragtime, Nickelodeans, Dance Halls, World War 1, Secularism, Jazz, 20s Berlin, Prohibition, 'Flappers,' Valentino, Hollywood, the spread of secondary and tertiary education, Leopold and Loeb, Clara Bow, 'It Girls,' the Charleston, Harlem, Jimmy Cagney, the Nazi Youth, the Depression of the 30s, Zoot Suits, French Zazou's, World War 2..... and much, much more.
Savage shows us that it was in this period that, in essence, the 'teenager' was born and that it's emergence as a social, economic and cultural entity was tied symbiotically with the emergence of America as a truly global power and the spread of it's values across the Western world. In this period a new incipient age of mass consumerism was born and with it a new market to be tapped. Savage conveys the themes of this book in a way which is both informative and pleasurable to read. Highly recommended.
Savage starts the book in his introduction by informing the reader that this is a 'prehistory of the teenager.' Inspired by Dick Hebdige's influential study 'Subculture-The Meaning of Style,' and by his own experience of the Punk scene in 70s London, Savage explains how he sought to discover the roots of what today we take for granted: namely the idea of adolescence as a seperate stage of life between childhood and adulthood, a specific cohort with loyalties to peer-group norms rather than those established by their parents and their parents culture.
Savage takes us on a tour which includes..... Fin De Siecle Paris, the waning power of Imperial Great Britain, the emerging militaristic power of Germany, juvenile delinquency, Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde, 'Hooligans,' The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, G. Stanley Hall, Boy Scouts, Ragtime, Nickelodeans, Dance Halls, World War 1, Secularism, Jazz, 20s Berlin, Prohibition, 'Flappers,' Valentino, Hollywood, the spread of secondary and tertiary education, Leopold and Loeb, Clara Bow, 'It Girls,' the Charleston, Harlem, Jimmy Cagney, the Nazi Youth, the Depression of the 30s, Zoot Suits, French Zazou's, World War 2..... and much, much more.
Savage shows us that it was in this period that, in essence, the 'teenager' was born and that it's emergence as a social, economic and cultural entity was tied symbiotically with the emergence of America as a truly global power and the spread of it's values across the Western world. In this period a new incipient age of mass consumerism was born and with it a new market to be tapped. Savage conveys the themes of this book in a way which is both informative and pleasurable to read. Highly recommended.
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Whilst modern folk lore hast it teenagers were in invented in the USA after the war was won, Jon has undertaken some archeology into this urban myth to do some excavating.
Whilst the great sociologists have concentrated on the "normal" the grunts that put in the shifts to make the economic wheels turn, Jon has delved into the lives of the "freaks". Those people who live on the edge of existence, shunned whilst inhabiting their mayfly existence. Castigated for breaking all moral taboos, social restraints around what is deemed socially acceptable. Eventually shunted out of the mainstream into early deaths or feted as prodigal sons/daughters for joining the flock and fold of middle aged idiocy.
Jon travels back to the Victorian era traversing the world in finding the signs of dissent and debauchery, unpicking the sanitised versions of history, sanctified by pious Marxists who wish to diefy the dignity of labour and knee scraping penitents clinging to the belief life is better in the after life why make rippled in this one, christian salvationists. Each has colluded to backfill history along with the free marketeers who wish to ensure progress has been marked with constant diligence and drudgery to the final orgasmic release of unrestrained consumerism.
Jon however shows the bachanal existed way before James Dean, Montgomery Clift and Elvis. There has always been a time just after puberty and just before the mill chain of work and expectation was placed around the neck, young people had a window of opportunity for expression. Unfortunatley most peopled have chosen some form of negation rather than dancing with unrestrained joy and creating something new.
However this has never stopped those who can rise above the binds of the dead generations to at least glimpse at what it is to be alive.
Jon creates the template in the book for another trajectory than all the carreers officers, teachers and pushy parents have to offer.
At least have a look before you go to work.
Whilst the great sociologists have concentrated on the "normal" the grunts that put in the shifts to make the economic wheels turn, Jon has delved into the lives of the "freaks". Those people who live on the edge of existence, shunned whilst inhabiting their mayfly existence. Castigated for breaking all moral taboos, social restraints around what is deemed socially acceptable. Eventually shunted out of the mainstream into early deaths or feted as prodigal sons/daughters for joining the flock and fold of middle aged idiocy.
Jon travels back to the Victorian era traversing the world in finding the signs of dissent and debauchery, unpicking the sanitised versions of history, sanctified by pious Marxists who wish to diefy the dignity of labour and knee scraping penitents clinging to the belief life is better in the after life why make rippled in this one, christian salvationists. Each has colluded to backfill history along with the free marketeers who wish to ensure progress has been marked with constant diligence and drudgery to the final orgasmic release of unrestrained consumerism.
Jon however shows the bachanal existed way before James Dean, Montgomery Clift and Elvis. There has always been a time just after puberty and just before the mill chain of work and expectation was placed around the neck, young people had a window of opportunity for expression. Unfortunatley most peopled have chosen some form of negation rather than dancing with unrestrained joy and creating something new.
However this has never stopped those who can rise above the binds of the dead generations to at least glimpse at what it is to be alive.
Jon creates the template in the book for another trajectory than all the carreers officers, teachers and pushy parents have to offer.
At least have a look before you go to work.
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