Ungdom i nya kläder: Dansbanefröjder och längtan efter det moderna i 1940-talets Sverige
Youth in new garments: dancing and the pursuit of modernity in the 1940's
Author
Summary, in English
My primary aim is to study various aspects of what young people from the working class did in their spare time in the 1940s in order to illuminate a phase in the change of youth culture. To what extent can it be said that the 1930's and 1940's were a kind of transitional period for modern youth culture? How is the beginning of modern development mirrored in the activities of the young? How did young people use dancing, music, films and fashion in building a culture of their own and as a way of asserting themselves? Did this period offer more possibilities for crossing class lines? In which ways did boys and girls meet modernity differently? Young people from the working class connected with Uppsala in Central Sweden are brought into focus, but other parts of the country as well as other social strata are also surveyed.
This study indicates that those who seem to be the first to recognise the new youth culture are young people from the urban working class. In many respects, they have acted as a sort of avant-garde.
Department/s
Publishing year
1996
Language
Swedish
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion
Topic
- Art History
Keywords
- Kulturantropologi
- modernity
- Youth culture
- change
- culture building
- generation
- class
- gender
- ethnology
- Cultural anthropology
- etnologi
Status
Published
Supervisor
- [unknown] [unknown]
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 91-7139-273-4
- ISRN: LUHFDA/HFET-96/1025--SE:200
Defence date
16 February 1996
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
Carolinasalen, Kungshuset
Opponent
- [unknown unknown]