Juke box Britain

Americanisation and youth culture, 194560

By: Adrian Horn, Jeffrey Richards (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 April 2009

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British teenagers witnessed immense cultural change in the period following the second world war. There were less than 100 juke boxes in Britain in 1945 and over 15,000 by 1958. Over the same period there was a similar unprecedented expansion of casual youth venues in the form of cafes, snack, milk and coffee bars where young people could hear the sounds of hot American jazz and rock 'n' roll.

It has been a common assumption among academics and cultural historians alike that British youth between 1945 and 1960 underwent a period of massive "Americanisation." "Juke Box Britain" contests this view maintaining that American popular-cultural influences were not examples of cultural domination but simply influences that combined with existing styles to create distinctly British style fusions."Juke Box Britain" is suitable for students of cultural, social and design histories as well as cultural studies and provides fascinating reading for youth culture and juke box enthusiasts.

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List of plates page	p. ix
List of figures	p. x
General editor's foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Context: British acceptance and resistance to American popular culture before 1945	p. 14
music and dance	p. 14
Americanisation and World War II	p. 20
pre-war juke boxes	p. 24
Americanisation and the post-war juke box	p. 34
1945-54	p. 34
1954-60	p. 49
American music, juke boxes and cultural resistance	p. 66
British teenagers	p. 90
Spivs and Teds: changing meanings of 'rebellious' male dress styles	p. 115
Cutting your coat according to your cloth: dress styles for young women after World War II	p. 142
Venues: from arcade to high street	p. 161
Legal implications	p. 162
Venues and style	p. 169
Social uses	p. 176
Conclusion	p. 186
Bibliography	p. 196
Index	p. 212
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