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[Review] Adrian Horn (2009) Juke box Britain - Americanisation and youth culture, 1945-60

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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:29 authored by Lucy RobinsonLucy Robinson
Horn’s ‘revisionist history of youth culture . . . provides a case study in cultural and design mediation’ (p. 1) in post-war Britain. It challenges the catch-all use of ‘Americanisation’ to describe British post-war mass culture. This is a particularly useful intervention currently, as the term is often used to describe anything that commentators and ageing academics do not like or understand in young people. Horn reminds us of Hebdige’s lesson, that both ‘dumbing down’ and ‘Americanisation’ are anxieties about mass society, rather than some form of American aesthetic export. More than that though, Horn shows us how these importations were often welcomed as just one influence among many.

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  • Published

Journal

Contemporary British History

ISSN

1361-9462

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

4

Volume

23

Page range

605-606

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  • History Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-09-27

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