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[Review] Adrian Horn (2009) Juke box Britain - Americanisation and youth culture, 1945-60
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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Contemporary British HistoryISSN
1361-9462Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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4Volume
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605-606Department affiliated with
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2012-09-27Usage metrics
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