Teenage : the creation of youth culture / Jon Savage.

Pt. 1. 1875-1904 -- 1. Heaven and hell : Marie Bashkirtseff and Jesse Pomeroy -- 2. Nationalists and decadents : the European counterrevolution -- 3. Hooligans and Apaches : juvenile delinquency and the mass media -- 4. "A sudden vision of heaven" : L. Frank Baum and the dreamland of Oz -- 5. The American century : G. Stanley Hall and adolescence -- Pt. 2. 1904-1913 -- 6. Peter Pan and the boy scouts : imperial British youth -- 7. High school freshmen and factory fodder : American adolescence and industry -- 8. Wandervogel and neo-pagans : Europe's back-to-nature movements -- 9. Nickelodeons and animal dances : the American dream economy -- Pt. 3. 1912-1919 -- 10. Invocation : the European generation gap -- 11. Sacrifice : the war dead and the young against the old -- 12. The class of 1902 : juvenile delinquency and the Great War -- 13. Jazz bands and doughboys : American youth enters Europe -- Pt. 4. 1919-1929 -- 14. Postwar shocks : the Fascisti, the German Bunde, and the Woodcraft Folk -- 15. Sheiks and Shebas : the American youth market -- 16. The Cinderella complex : the problems of America's mass culture -- 17. The pursuit of pleasure : the bright young people -- Pt. 5. 1930-1939 -- 18. The soldiers of an idea : the Hitler youth -- 19. The children's army and the New Deal : American adolescents in the Depression -- 20. Biff boys and the red menace : the polarization of British youth -- 21. Jitterbugs and ickies : American swing and youth consumerism -- Pt. 6. 1939-1943 -- 22. Conquerors and overlords : the Hitler youth at war and at home -- 23. Reluctant conscripts and socialist heroes : British youth at war -- 24. Sub-debs and GIs : American adolescents in school and in uniform -- 25. German swing kids and French Zazous : swing in Nazi Europe -- 26. Zoot-suiters and victory girls : American unrest in 1943 -- Pt. 7. 1942-1945 -- 27. The peaceful invaders : American soldiers and British youth -- 28. Helmuth Hubener, the white rose, and Anne Frank : resistance in Nazi Europe -- 29. The arrival of the teenager : the launch of seventeen -- 30. Year Zero : the teenager triumphant.

"Jon Savage, author of the landmark book on the punk era, England's Dreaming, launches this monumental work of cultural investigative reporting in 1875, when the first bestselling memoir of teenage angst was published and the first teenage mass murderer was condemned to life in solitary confinement. He ends in 1945, with the death of the century's most famous teenager, Anne Frank. In between, we visit the Land of Oz and roam the streets of New York, London, Paris, and Berlin with hooligans, Apaches, and other young gangs." "This is the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew. Implicit in it is the ongoing clash of generations, as each new set of teens makes its mark on an often hostile world. Drawing widely on film, music, literature high and low, fashion, politics, and art, always with an eye to the unexpected example, Savage fuses popular culture, politics, and social history into a stunning chronicle of modern life."--BOOK JACKET.