Bibliograph

Last season of innocence, the teen experience in the 1960s, Victor Brooks

Type

Label

Last season of innocence, the teen experience in the 1960s, Victor Brooks

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Last season of innocence

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

910856313

Responsibility statement

Victor Brooks

Sub title

the teen experience in the 1960s

Summary

This book discusses the lives of the preteens and teenagers who were in junior high school, high school, and first year of college in the 1960s. These were young people who read "Seventeen" and "Mad," watched more television than their older siblings and tended to listen to 45 rpm singles. Substantial numbers of these teens could and did join political protests, but they also engaged in a more personal daily struggle with school dress codes and parental intrusion on social life. Victor Brooks offers a unique account of the much-chronicled 1960s by examining the experiences of these preteens and teenagers

Table Of Contents

Teen life in 1959: the gateway to the sixties -- Teen family life and social life -- High school, USA -- Teen beat: the twist to the Beatles -- Teens on screen -- Teens in transition: home room to dorm room -- Teen consumers and adolescent ambassadors -- Coping with the generation gap -- The teen music explosion, 1964-1969: myth and reality -- Teens at war -- Visualizing teens, 1964-1969 -- Yesterday once again: the sixties teen experience as history

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