1 Online-Ressource (318 pages, [16] pages of plates)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-308) and index
Prologue -- - New approach to youth -- - Sex and drugs before rock 'n' roll -- - The phase of life recognized as 'Youth' -- - Rites of passage -- - Prodigal son -- - Youth culture -- - Holland -- heart of the Republic -- - Masculinity -- - Before rock 'n' roll -- - 1 - The Generation of the 1620s and 1630s -- - Risk-taking behavior -- - Marriage -- - Amsterdam -- a seventeenth-century boomtown -- - 2 - Appearance and Clothing in the 1620s and 1630s -- - Long hair -- - Cavaliers -- - Republic sans court culture -- - Silk ribbons and metalic accessories -- - Bright colors -- - Calculated slovenliness -- - Sumptuary rite of passage -- - Extravagant clothing and the Prodigal Son -- - 3 - Drinking Like a Man -- - Rite of passage -- - Follies of youth -- - Moral instruction -- - Alcohol and young men from the upper and middle classes -- - Honoring Bacchus -- - Male bonding: cross social and economic drinking -- - Alcohol and young men from the lower echelons -- - 4 - Violence --
- Violence -- a rite of passage -- - Collective socialization process -- - Unequal partners -- - Urban socialization process -- - Violence and the lower ranks -- - Rebelling against authority -- - Violence and the upper and middle classes -- - Loco parentis -- - Armed young men -- - Student violence -- a rite of passage -- - Shattering glass -- - Nations -- - Channelled violence -- - 5 - Sexuality and Courting -- - Sex education -- - Sexual maturity -- - Masturbation -- - Sodomy -- - Courting activities -- - Courting events -- - Courting space -- - Premarital chastity -- - Sexual deviance abroad -- - 6 - Drugs? -- - Tobacco and the young -- - Smoking -- a burning debate -- - Medical discourse -- - Belladonna -- - 7 - Recreation before Rock 'n' Roll -- - Youth literature -- - War -- - Adventure -- - Love emblem books -- - Song culture in the Republic -- - Religious songbooks -- - Secular songbooks -- - Women and songbooks -- - Song culture produced by and for the young --
- Arcadian songbooks -- - Boat trips -- - Country rides -- - Merrymaking at the beach -- - Boundaries for the young -- - Epilogue -- - Masculine role models and a national identity? -- - The dark passenger of male role models