Juke Box Britain - Americanisation and Youth Culture, 194560

Informationen zum Autor Adrian Horn is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of History at Lancaster University, and an Associate Lecturer in Social Sciences with the Open University Klappentext British teenagers witnessed immense cultural change in the period following the second world war. There were less than 100 juke boxes in Britain in 1945 and over 15,000 by 1958. Over the same period there was a similar unprecedented expansion of casual youth venues in the form of cafés, snack, milk and coffee bars where young people could hear the sounds of hot American jazz and rock 'n' roll.It has been a common assumption among academics and cultural historians alike that British youth between 1945 and 1960 underwent a period of massive 'Americanisation'. Juke Box Britain contests this view maintaining that American popular-cultural influences were not examples of cultural domination but simply influences that combined with existing styles to create distinctly British style fusions.Juke Box Britain is suitable for students of cultural, social and design histories as well as cultural studies and provides fascinating reading for youth culture and juke box enthusiasts. Zusammenfassung Presents a highly original and detailed investigation into the nature of American visual, musical and cultural influences on British youth between 1945 and 1960. It looks at the spread of youth culture, juke boxes, coffee and milk bars, dress styles and rock ‘n’ roll and the context of these ‘new’ cultural influences in design, music and lifestyle. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis PlatesTablesFiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Context - British acceptance and resistance to American popular culture pre 19452. Americanisation and the post-war juke box3. American music, juke boxes and cultural resistance4. British teenagers5. Spivs and Teds: changing meanings of 'rebellious' male dress styles6. Cutting your coat according to your cloth: Dress styles for young women after World War II7. Venues: From arcade to high streetConclusionBibliographyIndex...

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Horn, Horn Adrian
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Richards (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2009
• EAN: 9780719079078
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7907-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Studies in Popular Culture; Studies in Popular Culture (Ha; Studies in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, c 1950 to c 1959, British Isles, C 1945 To C 1960