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Teenage: Creation Of Youth

Trikont

US-0396

  • Released: December 18, 2009

Compiled by ’England’s Dreaming’ author Jon Savage, this compilation is intended as an aural accompaniment to Savage’s book of the same name, a book which traces the roots of the teenager. You see in the past, the teenager as we know it today simply didn’t exist, it’s a modern construct and one which was in many ways informed by the development of the music scene. This album and its large pamphlet of notes maps the progression of ‘young’ music from 1911 to 1946 and is a captivating listening experience, both from a historical standpoint and as an album in its own right. We move from the ragtimes of 1911 through the early jazz of Duke Ellington, the burnt out folk of Woody Guthrie and the drug-induced iconic pop of Judy Garland all the way up to the comparitively refined sounds of Frank Sinatra and The Mills Brothers. Whichever way you look at it this compilation stands as a hugely enjoyable music lesson, and a window into an era of growing up that we have barely any connection to.

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