Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975

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This choice of essays is without doubt one of the first comprehensive studies of the emergence of teenagers as an independent sector of society, alienated from the adult world and in pursuit of their own life-style. Teenage New Jersey explores the origins of this phenomenon all the way through the Depression, when the scarcity of jobs forced increasingly teens into school, and through the World War II years, when teens acquired additional responsibilities and their own sources of source of revenue. The postwar suburban explosion, increasing affluence, and the changing racial composition of high schools pushed teens further from the older generation’s values and led them to forge a unity of their own. Contributors to the volume examine the identities assumed by teenagers all the way through the 1950s and 1960s when music (Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, the Beatles), movies (Revolt And not using a Cause), and mobility influenced their lives. Ignored and condemned, alienated and defiant, New Jersey teenagers have been both the cause and result of societal and cultural changes. That is their story.

Teenage New Jersey used to be produced to complement the inaugural exhibition mounted within the new headquarters of the New Jersey Historical Society.

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