Title London's working-class youth and the making of post-Victorian Britain, 1958-1971 / Felix Fuhg

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Palgrave studies in the history of subcultures and popular music Palgrave studies in the history of subcultures and popular music. Contents 1. Introduction -- PART I: SOCIETY -- 2. Vulgar Nincompoops and Sawdust Caesars: Generations, adolescence, and the historicity of youth culture in post-war debates -- 3. First I Look At The Purse: Youth at work -- PART II: CITY -- 4. Mods, working-class youth and Londons way of becoming a modern post-war metropolis -- 5. Working-class youth and the social transformation of post-war London -- PART III: POP -- 6. Making Britain great again: Popular culture and the British invasion -- 7. Cultural renewal and the transnational fashion industry -- PART IV: SPACE -- 8. The creation and use of public space -- 9. Leisure venues: London by day and by night Summary 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 Britains 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. Felix Fuhg is Research Associate at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University Berlin, Germany Notes Print version record Subject Poor youth -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century Working class -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century Poor youth -- England -- London -- Social conditions -- 20th century Manners and customs Poor youth Poor youth -- Social conditions Social conditions Working class SUBJECT London (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078226 Subject England -- London Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030689681 3030689689

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