Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Popular culture and family life in the postwar years; The rise of youth cultures; Did the sixties 'swing' in Australia?; New voices, old themes; Imagining the national; No place like home?; Afterword: Popular culture and the past; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
In order to understand the massive social and cultural changes that took place in Australia since the end of World War II, Michelle Arrow examines popular culture through three main lenses: consumerism and the development of a mass consumer society; the impact of technological change; and the ways that popular culture contributes to, and articulates, individual and collective identities. She provides an integrated account of changes in a range of popular culture forms, meanings, production and consumption
