Juke box Britain

Americanisation and youth culture, 1945–60

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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British teenagers witnessed immense cultural change in the period following the second world war. There were fewer than 100 juke boxes in Britain in 1945 and over 15,000 by 1958. Over the same period there was a similar unprecedented expansion of casual youth venues in the form of cafés, snack, milk and coffee bars where young people could hear the sounds of hot American jazz and rock ‘n’ roll.It has been a common assumption among academics and cultural historians alike that British youth between 1945 and 1960 underwent a period of massive ‘Americanisation’. Juke Box Britain contests this view maintaining that American popular-cultural influences were not examples of cultural domination but simply influences that combined with existing styles to create distinctly British style fusions.Juke Box Britain is suitable for students of cultural, social and design histories as well as cultural studies and provides fascinating reading for youth culture and juke box enthusiasts.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-11-18
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt3 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Popular Culture
Antal sidor240
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719083662

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Introduction1. Context - British acceptance and resistance to American popular culture pre 19452. Americanisation and the post-war juke box3. American music, juke boxes and cultural resistance4. British teenagers5. Spivs and Teds: changing meanings of ‘rebellious’ male dress styles6. Cutting your coat according to your cloth: Dress styles for young women after World War II7. Venues: From arcade to high streetConclusionBibliographyIndex

Richard Hoggart believed that the juke box was a harbinger of all the worst features of American mass culture. Using a range of primary and secondary sources, from the trade press of the music industry to memoirs and interviews, and drawing on an established sociological and historical literature on postwar youth cultures, Adrian Horn has produced an innovative and scholarly work. He charts the cultural impact of juke boxes in Britain in meticulous detail, and sheds much needed light also on the cultural worlds of 'the juke box boys' and youth cafes of postwar Britain.'