Growing Up and Going out : Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain (Studies in Popular Culture)

Kenny, Sarah

Manchester University Press（2025/02発売）

Manchester University Press（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 258 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526152640
• DDC分類 305.235094109045

Full Description

In the decades following the Second World War, youthful sociability was remade as young people across Britain flocked to newly-opened coffee bars, beat clubs, and discos. These spaces, increasingly unknown and unfamiliar to the adults who passed by them, played a remarkable role in reshaping town and city centres after dark as sites of leisure and recreation. Telling the history of youth in post-war Britain from the ground up, through the towns and cities that young people moved through, this book traces how the new spaces of post-war youth leisure transformed both young people's relationship with their local environment and adults' perceptions of the possibilities and dangers of modern leisure. Growing up and going out offers a timely study of youth, commerce, and leisure that explores the reimagination, remaking, and regulation of the post-war city after dark.

Contents

Introduction
PART I: YOUTH AND THE CHANGING URBAN ENVIRONMENT
1 Out in the city
2 The business of leisure
3 Regulating youth after dark
PART II: YOUTH, LIVED EXPERIENCE, AND IDENTITY
4 Gymslip drinkers
5 Leisure, consumption, and identity
Conclusion