Lost Histories of Youth Culture

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Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii Introduction: Youth Histories Lost and Found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Christine Feldman-Barrett Part One: Leisure and Lifestyle Chapter One: “My Unsocial Habit”: Reading and Emergent Youth Subcultures in Civil War America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Ronald J . Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray Chapter Two: Beijing Youth Fashions from Red Guards to Rock Fans, 1966–1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Paul Clark Chapter Three: “Fade to Grey”: The Forgotten History of the British New Romantic Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Andy Bennett Chapter Four: Searching for Greenland’s Youth Culture Before the Internet Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Jette Rygaard vi | table of contents Part Two: Identity and Community Chapter Five: Lost Province of German Youth: Remembering East Prussia’s Last Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Christine Feldman-Barrett Chapter Six: “I Turn into a Pink Dolphin”: Apurinã Youth, Awiri, and Encounters with the Unseen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Chapter Seven: Queering Tehran: Discovering Gay Rap in Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Elham Golpush-Nezhad Chapter Eight: Youth, Athletics, and the Construction of Kalenjin Identities in Postcolonial Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Godwin Siundu Part Three: Politics and Nation Chapter Nine: The “Young Canada” Project: Youth and Nation-Building from 1867 to 1900 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Cynthia R . Comacchio Chapter Ten: The Nikkeijin Underground in Japanese Extreme Metal . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Rosemary Overell Chapter Eleven: Emergent Youth Culture in 19th-Century India: A View from Colonial Bengal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Swapna M . Banerjee Chapter Twelve: Divergences and Divisions in Contemporary Spain’s Political Youth Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Jordi Nofre, José Sánchez García, and Carles Feixa About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Acknowledgments As the now-popular saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child.” This publica- tion, one of my “literary offspring,” did take a global village to grow from an idea to a reality. From my computer in Queensland, Australia, I have had the pleasure of working with quality scholars from around the world who have put many hours of research, writing, and overall thoughtfulness into crafting a “lost history.” I am delighted that they have been part of this project. Moreover, a very big thank you goes out to my editors Sharon Mazzarella and Mary Savigar at Peter Lang for believing in the concept of this book and for always offering me such excellent advice. I would also like to thank both Griffith University’s Susan Forde and the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research for giving me the extra time and funding, respectively, to finish this book. I am extremely grateful to Andy Bennett, Ronald J. Zboray, and Mary Saracino Zboray for their continued mentorship and wisdom. Adele Pavlidis and Michelle Smith were also very helpful in providing me with needed tips and feedback in varying, insightful ways. Most importantly, I want to acknowledge my supportive and patient husband, Richard Barrett. Thanks, Richard, for always reminding me of the “big picture” when the little things seem to get in the way. Swapna M. Banerjee would like to thank Christine Feldman-Barrett for her extensive feedback on her chapter. Cynthia Comacchio wishes to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the research office at Wilfrid Laurier University for their continued support. Carles Feixa, José Sánchez