Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis

by Ryan Moore

Book Overview

Music has always been central to the cultures that young people create, follow, and embrace. In the 1960s, young hippie kids sang along about peace with the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and tried to change the world. In the 1970s, many young people ended up coming home in body bags from Vietnam, and the music scene changed, embracing punk and bands like The Sex Pistols. In Sells Like Teen Spirit, Ryan Moore tells the story of how music...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814757480
• ISBN13: 9780814757482
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"