Bodo Mrozek is a historian and Research Associate at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ).
Bodo Mrozek is a historian and Research Associate at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies of the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ).
Clamorous sounds, unruly behavior, and colorful fashions: the sonic vocabulary used by contemporaries to describe the new youth scene in the mid-20th century mark a cultural dividing point. Aesthetic conflicts culminated in street riots and produced police measures, censorship, and laws. Spectacular court cases against youths led to negative social clichés of male urban youth: the American...