London’S Working-Class Youth And The Making Of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971 (Palgrave Studies In The History Of Subcultures And Popular Music)

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.

• | Author: Felix Fuhg
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jun 04, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 454 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 3030689700
• | ISBN-13: 9783030689704