scholarly journals Benjamin Roberts, Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll. Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Dorothee Sturkenboom
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Rock N Roll

Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Youth Behavior ◽  
Dutch Golden Age ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
The 1960S

Binge drinking and illicit sex were just as common in the Dutch Golden Age as they are today, if not more so. Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll in the Dutch Golden Age is a compelling narrative about the generation of young men that came of age in the Dutch Republic during the economic boom of the early seventeenth century. Contrary to their parents' wishes, the younger generation grew up in luxury and wore extravagant clothing, grew their hair long, and squandered their time drinking and smoking. They created a new youth culture with many excesses; one that we today associate with the counterculture generation of the 1960s. With his engaging storytelling style and humorous anecdotes, Roberts convincingly reveals that deviant male youth behavior is common to all times, especially periods when youngsters have too much money and too much free time on their hands.

Crossover Accordionists

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Youth Culture ◽  
New Music ◽  
New Models ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
New Instruments

This chapter resumes the accordion's history at around the year 1963, after the accordion had reached the height of its popularity and America's youth were beginning to embrace new music and new instruments. Looking at the accordion in the context of the rock 'n' roll invasion and the rise of youth culture, this chapter examines the accordion industrial complex's efforts to extend its popularity—focusing on a trickle of new models equipped with features for rock accordionists. Yet the chapter also shows how this new sense of excitement about the future of the accordion subsided and how playing the accordion became, for all intents and purposes, geeky and uncool.

The 1950s and 1960s: Open and Hidden Relations

Prospects ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 467-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Buhle
Keyword(s):  
Youth Culture ◽  
The Road ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Rock N Roll ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Multiracial Youth

The usual stories of 1950s influence upon the 1960s have now been retold, and so often as the autobiography of a generation, that they may be said to have achieved emblematic textbook status. The Beats, with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Allen Ginsberg's Howl, are said to have reopened a closed culture of McCarthyism; and rock ‘n’ roll, if it did not actually save the souls of the teen participants, prepared them for the multiracial youth culture dreams of the following era.

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