Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

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Max Décharné

Teddy Boys

Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

Max Décharné

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Profile Books Ltd
23 April 2024

Music: styles & genres; Popular culture; Age groups: adolescents

With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab clothes, Blitz playgrounds and tinned dinners.

From the Edwardian origins of their fashion to the tabloid fears of delinquency, drunkenness and disorder, the story of the Teds throws a fascinating light on a British society that was still reeling from the Second World War. In the 1950s, working-class teenagers found a way of asserting themselves in how they dressed, spoke and socialised on the street. When people saw Teds, they stepped aside.

Musician and author Max Decharne traces the rise of the Teds and the shockwave they sent through post-war Britain, from the rise of rock 'n' roll to the Notting Hill race riots. Full of fascinating insight, deftly sketching the milieu of Elvis Presley and Derek Bentley, Billy Fury and Oswald Mosley, Teddy Boys is the story of Britain's first youth counterculture.

By: Max Décharné
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 554g
ISBN: 9781846689789
ISBN 10: 1846689783
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 23 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Max Decharne was a member of the band Gallon Drunk, and has been with his band The Flaming Stars since 1994. An authority on the 1950s and 1960s counterculture, he is the author of Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of British Slang, as well as A Rocket in My Pocket and Hardboiled Hollywood. He lives in London.

Reviews for Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

'Praise for Max Decharne' - : 'Decharne writes attentively and with authority about the ping-ponging of scenester phrases between genres, and from closed circles of cognoscenti to the wider world' - TLS 'Decharne, a musician and songwriter, has written extensively on music, crime and noir, and his great gift is to connect his encyclopaedic knowledge of more recent slang to that of the past. His mind is a trivia-trap of the first order' - New York Times 'The strength of Mr. Decharne's account is its zest ... he has an infectious enthusiasm for the peculiarities of English vocabulary' - Wall Street Journal