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Teddy Boys
Max Décharné
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Musik
Beschreibung
'Enormously enjoyable' Sunday Times
'Genial and entertaining' Daily Telegraph
'A joyous celebration of the founding fathers of British youth culture' Alwyn Turner, author of All in it Together and Little Englanders
With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab clothes, Blitz playgrounds and tinned dinners.
From the Edwardian origins of their fashion to the tabloid fears of delinquency, drunkenness and disorder, the story of the Teds throws a fascinating light on a British society that was still reeling from the Second World War. In the 1950s, working-class teenagers found a way of asserting themselves in how they dressed, spoke and socialised on the street. When people saw Teds, they stepped aside.
Musician and author Max Décharné traces the rise of the Teds and the shockwave they sent through post-war Britain, from the rise of rock 'n' roll to the Notting Hill race riots. Full of fascinating insight, deftly sketching the milieu of Elvis Presley and Derek Bentley, Billy Fury and Oswald Mosley, Teddy Boys is the story of Britain's first youth counterculture.
Rezensionen
Taking in everything from the birth of rock 'n' roll to the Notting Hill riots, [ <i>Teddy Boys</i>] takes us back to an era when working-class teenagers first began to assert themselves in the UK ... Décharné'
Reclaiming a youth cult that from the very outset was besmirched by the gutter press of Fleet Street and continues to be associated more with thuggish behaviour than peacockish dandyism, Max Decharne traces the rise and fall of a peculiarly English street-wise style that found a soundtrack in American rock 'n'
A joyous celebration of the founding fathers of British youth culture, and a great slice of social and cultural history
The strength of Mr. Décharné'
Expert research, insider knowledge and a love for the subject all make for a thumping good read
<b>Praise for Max Décharné</b>
In his genial and entertaining <i>Teddy Boys</i>, rock journalist Max Décharné takes a calm look at the phenomenon and strips away the myths that coloured it
Enjoyable ... diligently researched ... a powerful, almost poignant, story
Excellent ... Décharné'
A persuasively detailed chronicle of an entire country ... an engrossing read, meticulously researched
[An] enormously enjoyable history of the Teddy boys ... plenty of historians have mentioned them in passing, but none has ever investigated them with Décharné'
**** [A] rise-and-fall chronicle of the New Edwardians, from the early-'
Max Décharné'
Décharné writes attentively and with authority about the ping-ponging of scenester phrases between genres, and from closed circles of cognoscenti to the wider world
Décharné, a musician and songwriter, has written extensively on music, crime and noir, and his great gift is to connect his encyclopaedic knowledge of more recent slang to that of the past. His mind is a trivia-trap of the first order
Kundenbewertungen
Derek Bentley, British style, Teddy Boys, 1960s counterculture, new wave, books on postwar Britain, Teds, music, British fashion, music books, 1950s, Elvis Presley