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Snelson, Tim 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8282-2432
(2012)
From juke box boys to bobby sox brigade: Female youth, moral panics and subcultural style in wartime Times Square.
Cultural Studies, 26 (6).
pp. 872-894.
ISSN 0950-2386
Abstract
Through its analysis of the complex discursive struggle over Times Square's – and later America's – ‘bobby sox brigade’, this article reintroduces young women into historical and theoretical accounts of youth culture. In doing so it challenges subculture and moral panic theories for their over-emphasis on working-class masculinity and their inability to account for the complexity and localized specificity – both historical and geographic – that such case studies command. The bobby soxer and the conflicting debates she engendered must be understood as a product of wartime contingency and in relation to the contested discourses within and between different localized contexts and media forms; the bobby soxer was simultaneously positioned as the key problem of wartime and promise of the post-war prosperity ahead. This article ultimately proposes a theoretical framework focusing on localized and contested terrains of discourse, appropriate to (sub)cultural activity in times of war and other disruptions.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies University of East Anglia > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media |
| Depositing User: | Katherine Humphries |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Dec 2012 10:13 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Nov 2022 10:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40375 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09502386.2012.687753 |
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