Between Marx and Coca-Cola

This collectionwill 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 Sixtiesa 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 rebellionIn an impressive display of thematic unity for an edited volume, the authors' contributions are in dialogue with one anotherthe volume is one of the year's best booksBy 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

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

Acknowledgements Introduction: Youth, Consumption, and Politics in the Age of Radical Change Axel Schildt and Detlef Siegfried PART I: POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE "GOLDEN AGE" Chapter 1. Youth Culture and the Cultural Revolution of the Long Sixties Arthur Marwick Chapter 2. Understanding 1968: Youth Rebellion, Generational Change and Postindustrial Society Detlef Siegfried Chapter 3. American Mass Culture and European Youth Culture Rob Kroes PART II: LEISURE TIME AND NEW CONSUMERISM Chapter 4. Music, Dissidence, Revolution, and Commerce: Youth Culture between Mainstream and Subculture Peter Wicke Chapter 5. The Triumph of English-Language Pop Music: West German Radio Programming Konrad Dussel Chapter 6. Across the Border: West German Youth Travel to Western Europe Axel Schildt Chapter 7. Imperialism and Consumption: Two Tropes in West German Radicalism Uta G. Poiger PART III: POLITICAL PROTEST Chapter 8. "Burn, ware-house, burn!" Modernity, Counterculture, and the Vietnam War in West Germany Wilfried Mausbach Chapter 9. Youth and the Antinuclear Power Movement in Denmark and West Germany Henrik Kaare Nielsen Chapter 10. "Youth Enacts Society and Somebody Makes a Coup": The Danish Student Movement between Political and Lifestyle Radicalism Steven L.B. Jensen Chapter 11. A Struggle for Radical Change? Swedish Students in the 1960s Thomas Etzemller PART IV: GENDER TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 12. Between Coitus and Commodification: Young West German Women and the Impact of the Pill Dagmar Herzog Chapter 13. Boy Trouble: French Pedophiliac Discourse of the 1970s Julian Bourg Chapter 14. "More than a dance hall, more a way of life": Northern Soul, Masculinity and Working-class Culture in 1970s Britain Barry Doyle PART V: CULTURES, COUNTERCULTURES, SUBCULTURES Chapter 15. Utopia and Disillusion: Shattered Hopes of the Copenhagen Counterculture Thomas Ekman Jrgensen Chapter 16. Juvenile Left-wing Radicalism, Fringe Groups, and Anti-psychiatry in West Germany Franz-Werner Kersting Chapter 17. The End of Certainties: Drug Consumption and Youth Delinquency in West Germany Klaus Weinhauer Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index