The Making of Modern Youth Culture October 22, 2009

Dance-mad girls, jazz babies and zoot suiters: This lecture considers how modern conceptions of youth culture arose in the twentieth century. Novel modes of leisure and consumption, changing dynamics of race, class, and gender, and a new class of experts to explain the problem of youth proved a potent combination, and set the stage for baby-boomers and beyond. This lecture is presented by Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania.