Larrikins : a history / / Melissa Bellanta
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| Autore: |
Bellanta Melissa
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| Titolo: |
Larrikins : a history / / Melissa Bellanta
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| Pubblicazione: | St. Lucia, Queensland ; ; Chicago, : University of Queensland Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.2350994 |
| Soggetto topico: | Subculture - Australia - History |
| Youth - Australia - History | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Larrikins |
| ISBN: | 0-7022-3912-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826828703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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