Histoire de la pop

To be published on January at "Bibliothèque allemande" collection by the Éditions de la MSH

"Histoire de la pop. Quand la culture jeune dépasse les frontières (années 1950-1960)"

In the 1950s and 1960s, youth culture underwent a veritable upheaval that shook and scandalized society. New codes and practices in music and fashion, as well as new behaviors, emerged, sparking heated debates about so-called juvenile delinquency. The emerging pop culture was interpreted as a degradation of morals, and "deviant" youth had to be disciplined through censorship, bans and sanctions. At the same time, racist, gendered and socially prejudiced modes of devaluation
prejudices permeate opposition to this cultural change.

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A book in dialogue with the cultural, social and political history of popular music

About the author

Born in Berlin, Bodo Mrozek is a cultural and contemporary historian at the Institut für
Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural and media history, the history of the senses, sound studies and Cold War studies. He received the International Association for the Study of Popular Music prize for the original version of this book.