Between Marx and Coca-Cola

Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

In the 1960s and 1970s, Western Europe's "Golden Age" (Eric Hobsbawm), a new youth consciousness emerged, which gave this period its distinctive character. Offering rich and new material, this volume moves beyond the easy conflation of youth culture and "Americanization" and instead sets out to show, for the first time, how international developments fused with national traditions to produce specific youth cultures that became the leading trendsetters of emergent post-industrial Western societies. It presents a multi-faceted portrait of European youth cultures, colored by differences in gender, class, and education, and points out the tension between emerging consumerism and growing politicisation, succinctly expressed by Jean-Luc Godard in his 1967 pairing of "Marx and Coca-Cola."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:608 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:436
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781845453336

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Axel Schildt (1951-2019) was Professor of History at the university of Hamburg and Director of the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg.

Recensioner i media

“…This collection…will be extremely helpful for all those researching and teaching socio-political change in Europe during and after the 1960s. It is particularly welcome as the book's focus on West Germany and Scandinavia covers precisely the most significant geographical omission in Arthur Marwick's The Sixties…a fascinating and innovative collection. It successfully conveys the competing and – at times – complementary pressures of political radicalization and the new consumerism during this stressful and exhilarating period of change.” • Journal of Contemporary History“…undergraduates who purchase this book will not sell it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. It is thoroughly readable and the translations and writings of non-native English speakers flow very well. It is also engaging and thought-provoking, with something to offer everyone, from the college student activist to the expert on youth culture and rebellion…In an impressive display of thematic unity for an edited volume, the authors' contributions are in dialogue with one another…the volume is one of the year's best books…By demonstrating the varying aspects of youth movements in different national settings, this volume takes the reader far beyond the parts of its whole.” • H-German

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Youth, Consumption, and Politics in the Age of Radical ChangeAxel Schildt and Detlef SiegfriedPART I: POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE "GOLDEN AGE"Chapter 1. Youth Culture and the Cultural Revolution of the Long SixtiesArthur MarwickChapter 2. Understanding 1968: Youth Rebellion, Generational Change and Postindustrial SocietyDetlef SiegfriedChapter 3. American Mass Culture and European Youth CultureRob KroesPART II: LEISURE TIME AND NEW CONSUMERISMChapter 4. Music, Dissidence, Revolution, and Commerce: Youth Culture between Mainstream and SubculturePeter WickeChapter 5. The Triumph of English-Language Pop Music: West German Radio ProgrammingKonrad DusselChapter 6. Across the Border: West German Youth Travel to Western EuropeAxel SchildtChapter 7. Imperialism and Consumption: Two Tropes in West German RadicalismUta G. PoigerPART III: POLITICAL PROTESTChapter 8. "Burn, ware-house, burn!" Modernity, Counterculture, and the Vietnam War in West GermanyWilfried MausbachChapter 9. Youth and the Antinuclear Power Movement in Denmark and West GermanyHenrik Kaare NielsenChapter 10. "Youth Enacts Society and Somebody Makes a Coup": The Danish Student Movement between Political and Lifestyle RadicalismSteven L.B. JensenChapter 11. A Struggle for Radical Change? Swedish Students in the 1960sThomas EtzemüllerPART IV: GENDER TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 12. Between Coitus and Commodification: Young West German Women and the Impact of the PillDagmar HerzogChapter 13. Boy Trouble: French Pedophiliac Discourse of the 1970sJulian BourgChapter 14. "More than a dance hall, more a way of life": Northern Soul, Masculinity and Working-class Culture in 1970s BritainBarry DoylePART V: CULTURES, COUNTERCULTURES, SUBCULTURESChapter 15. Utopia and Disillusion: Shattered Hopes of the Copenhagen CountercultureThomas Ekman JørgensenChapter 16. Juvenile Left-wing Radicalism, Fringe Groups, and Anti-psychiatry in West GermanyFranz-Werner KerstingChapter 17. The End of Certainties: Drug Consumption and Youth Delinquency in West GermanyKlaus WeinhauerSelect BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex