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Examines youth culture in Japan in comparison with the US and the UK. Analyzes the main generational groupings to have grown up under conditions of affluence and discusses their readiness to take part in an increasingly global culture.

Examines the history of youth culture in Japan from preindustrialization to contemporary times. By dividing youth culture into periods, the shift in class culture from the farmer class in preindustrial times to the urban class & culture during the 1930s-1940s is revealed. During the 1970s, an affluent society emerged creating a youth culture that began to break away from the military & rural influences. The shinjinrui (new species) of the 1980s were marked by their individualism, expressionism, & a predilection toward consumer behavior. The 1990s or baby-boomer generation is manifested by flattering, fluidity, & anticipatory adaptability. It is suggested that similarities between US & Japanese youth have been increasing since the 1980s. 2 Tables, 36 References. M. Greenberg

QUEER YOUTH CULTURES -- contents -- INTRODUCING QUEER YOUTH CULTURES -- Part 1. PERFORMATIVE QUEER YOUTHCULTURES, EMBODIMENTS, AND COMMUNITIES -- 1. WHAT'S THAT SMELL?QUEER TEMPORALITIES AND SUBCULTURAL LIVES -- 2. "THE GALAXY IS GAY: "EXAMINING THE NETWORKS OF LESBIAN PUNK ROCK SUBCULTURE -- 3. REDEFINING REALITIES THROUGH SELF-REPRESENTATIONAL PERFORMANCE -- 4. MY IDENTITY IS FLUID AS FUCK: TRANSGENDER ZINE WRITERS CONSTRUCTING THEMSELVES -- 5. ARTICULATING SISSY BOY QUEERNESS WITHIN AND AGAINST DISCOURSES OF TOLERANCE AND PRIDE

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note to readers -- Introduction: On youth cultural studies -- One. Fresh Contacts: Global Culture and the Concept of Generation -- Two. Children of the Revolution: Fiction Take to the Streets -- Three. Disposable Youth/Disposable Futures: The Crisis of Politics and the Public Life -- Four. 'Splendid Fun' in "Elsewhere': Textual Treats for Contemporary Readers in Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did and Other 'Classic' North American Stories for Girls -- Five. Ideologies of Youth and the Bildungsromane of S. E. Hinton -- Six. 'Something you Can't Unbear': Masculinity, Youth and History in Larry Watson's Montana 1948 -- Seven. 'Teensomething': American Youth Programming in the 1990s -- Eight. The Body's in the Trunk: (Re-) Presenting Generation X -- Nine. 'Be Childish, Be Irresponsible, Be Disrespectful, Be Everything this Society Hate's: Punk, Youth and Protest -- Ten. Wanting to be Lisa: Generational Rifts, Girl Power and the Globalization of Surf Culture -- Index

A4602C_Volume 1 -- Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Entries -- Topic Finder -- Introduction and Acknowledgments -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- A4602C_Volume 2 -- Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Entries -- Topic Finder -- Introduction and Acknowledgments -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Selected Bibliography and Websites -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Index

Despite all endeavours for activating different groups of the population sport is also today a domain of the youth. Persons at the age up to 20 among athletes are by far overrepresented in comparison to their share in the population. The sports club, at this age, does not only very far reduce to the background all other forms of organization of leisure time activities but forms far more the most popular type of participation in voluntary organizations. In contrast to many common ideas this fact holds true for all social groups. The quota of persons who at least once a month are engaged in extracurricular sports activities or who are organized in sport clubs, is at the age between 16 and 20 nearly as high in the lower classes as it is in the middle classes. Only after the 20th year of age the curves of participation in sports are diverging fairly well in the social groups, i.e. the members of lower social classes where obviously sport is considered as a typical behaviour of youth, are withdrawing from sport. The same holds true for the engagement in leisure time activities in general. The strong social differentiations in the level of participation in sports in general, in the type of the chosen sports discipline and leisure time activities and in the membership in voluntary organizations are fully implemented only with adults. Obviously, sport belongs to the elements of an independent youth culture in leisure time which also comprises the female members of lower classes, who at higher age are especially diverging from the activity samples of middle classes.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Dedication -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Troubled Youth, Troubling World -- 1: Youth and Class: The Career of a Confusion -- 2: Boys will be Men: Brief Adolescence in a Down-Town Neighbourhood -- 3: 'Paki-Bashing' in a North East Lancashire Cotton Town: A Case Study and Its History -- 4: Youth in Pursuit of Itself -- 5: Beyond the Skinheads: Comments on the Emergence and Significance of the Glamrock Cult -- 6: When Pupils and Teachers Refuse a Truce: The Secondary School and the Creation of Delinquency -- 7: Working Class Youth Cultures -- Bibliography.