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Article: Teenage Nervous Breakdown.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- October 1, 2006
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Teenage Nervous Breakdown
David Walley
Routledge
270 Madison Avenue, NY, NY 10016
0415978572 $19.95 www.routledge.com 1-800-634-7064
Written by popular music and culture expert David Walley, who has documented the evolution of rock and roll since the late sixties, Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Age is a close scrutiny of how rock and the rock lifestyle have been commercialized and merchandized, first to a teenage audience, and now to a worldwide consumer society. In particular, Teenage Nervous Breakdown explores how modern culture ...