In the Spirit of '68: Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia by Joel Belliveau, and: Thumbing A Ride: Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada by Linda Mahood

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-177
Author(s):  
Katharine Rollwagen
Keyword(s):  
Youth Culture ◽  
New Left

‘I’m an adolescent. And that’s how I’m going to stay’: Lessing and Youth Culture 1956–1962

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Bentley
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
New Left ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
Anthony Burgess ◽  
Muriel Spark ◽  
Youth Subcultures ◽  
British Culture

The mid-to-late 1950s saw an explosion of youth subcultures in Britain – teenagers, Teddy Boys, jazz fans, hipsters, beatniks, mods and rockers. This range generated a series of moral panics and media fascination. The New Left in particularly were split on whether to see these new youth groups as indicative of a consumer-led Americanization of traditional working-class British culture or as potential sites for cultural (and political) rebellion. Lessing’s representation of youth is particularly interesting in this context, and it is a recurring theme in a number of works from this period including her plays Each to His Own Wilderness and Play With a Tiger, her documentary novel In Pursuit of the English, and her novels A Ripple From the Storm and The Golden Notebook. This chapter traces Lessing’s engagement with youth culture and argues that she articulates concerns within the New Left and British culture more broadly. Her work is read against contemporary cultural commentary from the New Left, especially in a series of articles in the Universities and Left Review, and against other fiction and commentary from the period, including works by Lynne Reid Banks, Anthony Burgess, Shelagh Delaney, Richard Hoggart, Colin MacInnes, Alan Sillitoe, and Muriel Spark.

New ‘Old Leftist’ Aesthetics in the West German Contemporary Music Scene

Red Strains ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beate Kutschke
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
New Left ◽  
The West ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
Old Left ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The Creation

This chapter investigates the socio-political background and music of the cantata Streik bei Mannesmann (1973) that was initiated by Wolfgang Florey and written by various young musicians such as Niels Frederic Hoffmann and Thomas Jahn, as well as the then-established composer Hans Werner Henze. It demonstrates that the creation of the collectively composed cantata must be traced back to the so-called ‘proletarian turn’: the turn, around 1970, from the New Left to the Old Left that affected not only the New Leftist activists, but also politicized musicians including those involved in the Mannesmann cantata. In light of the opposed objectives of the New Left and the new Old Left — the former fought for improving the living and working conditions of workers; the latter aimed at developing an anti-hierarchical youth culture and new lifestyles — the music reveals a remarkable stylistic split that reflects the ideological split between both Leftist camps.

Mediating Media: Representations of Youth Culture and Provocative Pedagogical Spaces

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sundy Watanabe ◽  
Jessica Solyom ◽  
Kathleen Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Youth Culture ◽  
Media Representations
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