Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll : Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age /

Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll : Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age /

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Sex and Drugs Before the Rock 'n' Roll is a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ways in which they expressed themselves by defying conservative val...

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Main Author: Roberts, Benjamin, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Young men > Social life and customs.
Young men > Sexual behavior.
Young men in art.
Young men > Alcohol use.
Masculinity.
Manners and customs.
HISTORY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Regional and national history.
Humanities.
History.
European history.
Jeunes hommes dans l'art.
Masculinite > Pays-Bas > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Jeunes hommes > Sexualite > Pays-Bas > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Jeunes hommes > Consommation d'alcool > Pays-Bas > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Jeunes hommes > Pays-Bas > Moeurs et coutumes > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Young men > Netherlands > History > 17th century.
Young men > Sexual behavior > Netherlands > History > 17th century.
Young men > Alcohol use > Netherlands > History > 17th century.
Masculinity > Netherlands > History > 17th century.
Netherlands.
Pays-Bas > Moeurs et coutumes > 17e siecle.
Netherlands > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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