Larrikins [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Melissa Bellanta

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790516603321
• Autore: Bellanta Melissa
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: St. Lucia, Queensland ; ; Chicago, : University of Queensland Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-7022-3912-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.2350994
• Soggetti: Subculture - Australia - History; Youth - Australia - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Author biography; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figure 1.; Figure 2.; Figure 3.; Introduction: The true blue Aussie larrikin; Chapter One: The leary bloke; Chapter Two: The brazen girl; Chapter Three: The pull of the push; Chapter Four: The Mount Rennie outrage; Chapter Five: Larrikin style; Chapter Six: All the world's a football field; Chapter Seven: The demise of the flash larrikin; Afterword: Larrikinism since 1930; Acknowledgments; Endnotes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Australia has often been said to possess a "larrikin streak," from the <I>Stiffy and Mo</I> cartoons and the true-blue Crocodile Hunter to the characters in the silent film <I>The Sentimental Bloke</I>. When it first emerged around 1870, <I>larrikin</I> was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage, working-class hell-raisers who populated dance halls and cheap theaters, and this account journeys through the street-based youth subculture known as larrikinism between 1870 and 1920, swerving through the streets of Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney. Offering a glimpse into the lives of Australia's