Sex, Thugs and Rock 'n' Roll

Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-718-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 432 g

Reihe: Monographs in German History

A fascinating and highly readable account of what it was like to be young and hip, growing up in East Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people were subject to a number of competing influences. For young men from the working class, in particular, a conflict developed between the culture they inherited from their parents and the new official culture taught in schools. Merging with street gangs, new youth cultures took shape, which challenged authority and provided an alternative vision of modernity. Taking their fashion cues, music and icons from the West, they rapidly came into conflict with a didactic and highly controlling party-state. Charting the clashes which occurred between teenage rebels and the authorities, the book explores what happened when gender, sexuality, Nazism, communism and rock 'n' roll collided during a period, which also saw the building of the Berlin Wall.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fenemore, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Gendering the GDR

Chapter 3. Remasculinisation

Chapter 4. Re-education

Chapter 5. A Teenage "Revolution"?

Chapter 6. Street Culture

Chapter 7. Sexing Up Socialism

Chapter 8. Remilitarisation

Chapter 9. Rock 'n' Roll

Chapter 10. Manufacturing Consent

Chapter 11. Making Men Out of Them

Chapter 12. Predatory Males

Chapter 13. Conclusion

Postscript: Where Are They Now?

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fenemore, Mark
Mark Fenemore has a first class degree in history and a Masters with Distinction. In 2002, he gained his Ph.D. in German Studies from University College London. He has held research fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research in London and the Centre for Historical Research at the University of Limerick. In October 2005, he took up a prestigious Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress, Washington DC. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University.