"All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go"? Spaces and Conventions of Youth in 1950s Britain.

Autor/in	Nathaus, Klaus
Titel	"All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go"? Spaces and Conventions of Youth in 1950s Britain. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: "Alle fein gemacht, aber wo soll man hingehen"? Räume und Konventionen der Jugend im England der 1950er Jahre.
Quelle	In: Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 41 (2015) 1, S. 40-70 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0340-613X; 2196-9000
DOI	10.13109/gege.2015.41.1.40
Schlagwörter	Subkultur; Jugend; Unterhaltung; Stadt; Straße; Gegenöffentlichkeit; Freizeit; Konvention; Lebenswelt; Jugendlicher; Großbritannien
Abstract	"Based on an analysis of streets and entertainment venues, the article stresses the importance of post-war changes in the urban environment for the emergence of 1950s British youth culture. It explains how and why young people in Britain in this period developed conventions and modes of self-presentation such as 'coolness' and overt enthusiasm as face-saving and socializing strategies, thus creating a distinct own social world which was viewed and criticized by adults and authorities as the culture of a counterworld. The article acknowledges the creativity of young people in making up their own conventions and modes of being, but argues that their influence on wider social and cultural change was limited; rather than seeing young people of the 1950s as countercultural pioneers, the article suggests that they appear to have been inheritors of Tate nineteenth-century mass culture." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2015/4