TEENAGE

In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England s Dreaming, Jon Savage presented the defini tive history of the English punk movement ( The New York Times ). Now, in Teenage, he explores the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a monumental work of cultural investigative reporting. Beginning in 1875 and ending in 1945, when the term t eenage became an integral part of popular culture, Savage draws widely on film, music, literature high and low, fashion, politics, a nd art a...[Read more]