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All shook up : the flash bodgie and the rise of the New Zealand teenager in the fifties / Redmer Yska.
- Title
- All shook up : the flash bodgie and the rise of the New Zealand teenager in the fifties / Redmer Yska.
- Author
- Yska, Redmer.
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 1993.
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- Description
- 224 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The 1950s -- Brylcreem and rock'n'roll, bodgies and widgies, "It's in the bag" and "Rebel without a cause", the Cold War and Reds under the bed. New Zealand in the Fifties is "all shook up" emerging from the war years and uncertain about the future. Still in the grip of anti-communist fever, the National Government of the day sees the coming generation of restless, promiscuous teenagers as part of another godless conspiracy. The government orders an official inquiry into moral delinquency and tries to suppress the American influenced teenage subculture. In this astonishing chapter of our recent social history, Remer Yska traces the rise of "the teenager" in the repressive climate that was Fifties New Zealand. What happened behind the bike sheds and in the milk bars was merely a symptom of unstoppable social change. New Zealand was becoming a prosperous consumer society. The teenager was here to stay." -- Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- "A Penguin Original".
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0140169997
- OCLC
- 33031430
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library