(Download free ebook) The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (American Crossroads)
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| #647980 in Books | 2009-09-22 | 2009-09-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.84 x6.00l,.97 | File Name: 0520261542 | 336 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Zoot Suit Riot Study Tool|By Pharmacy Student|Luis Alvarez describes the development of an identity for each of several minority groups during WWII. He focuses on the zoot suit counter-culture and its relation to sailers and to other minorities. This book helped me understand the significance of cultural development during WWII. It was very helpful on my college p||
“Diligently charts a culture’s exemplar, the zoot suit, and connects it to modern fashion and music . . . . It is a compelling window into the U.S. in the war years as seen from a much different point of view.”
Flamboyant zoot suit culture, with its ties to fashion, jazz and swing music, jitterbug and Lindy Hop dancing, unique patterns of speech, and even risqué experimentation with gender and sexuality, captivated the country's youth in the 1940s. The Power of the Zoot is the first book to give national consideration to this famous phenomenon. Providing a new history of youth culture based on rare, in-depth interviews with former zoot-suiters, Luis Alvarez ... [PDF.rh23] The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (American Crossroads) Rating: 3.65 (595 Votes)
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