London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971

von Felix Fuhg

441 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9783030689704
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.05.2022
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing