Youth Subcultures and Representative Texts
Bohemian
Novels Andrew Auseon JoJo and the Fiendish Lot Deborah Davis Not Like You Sharon Dogar Waves Hillary Frank Better Than Running at Night Adele Geras Pictures at Night Nick Hornby High Fidelity Jeanette Walls The Glass Castle
Artistic Communities involving some of the following people /representations such as: The Bloomsbury Group, The Algonquin Round Table, The Brill Building, Montmartre etc.
Poets The Bloomsbury Group: T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, The Algonquin Round Table: Dorothy Parker Greenwich Village: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mina Loy
Movies The Beach, Reds, Frida, Rent, Chelsea Walls, Moulin Rouge, Cabaret, Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle, Cradle Will Rock, Amelie, Point Break. The Shape of Things
Artists Montmartre: Les Nabis and the Incoherents were formed and individuals including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen
Music The Brill Building Sound: Carole King, Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka, Laura Nyro, Neil Diamond, Bobby Darin (e.g. Among the hundreds of hits written by this group are Leiber and Stoller's "Yakety Yak", Shuman and Pomus's "Save The Last Dance For Me", Bacharach and David's "The Look of Love", Sedaka and Greenfield's "Calendar Girl", King and Goffin's "The Loco-Motion", Mann and Weil's "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and Spector, Greenwich and Barry's "River Deep Mountain High") Marianne Faithful Beatnik
Novels Sean Beaudoin Going Nowhere Faster Cecil Castellucci Beige Amy Ehrlich Joyride Peter Jenkins A Walk Across America Linda Oatman High Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Road Trip Maureen Johnson 13 Little Blue Envelopes Billie Letts Where the Heart Is Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Poets Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell (founded confessional poetry, students include Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton)
Movies Into the Wild, Funny Face, Scooby Doo, Elizabethtown, Whale Rider, Safe, Erin Brokovitch, Silkwood, A Civil Action, Grace of My Heart, The Crossing Guard, Howl, Big Fish, One Week, PS I Love You
Artists Dadaism & Surrealism: Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Hans Richter, Jean Arp, Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, John Tunnard Abstract Expressionism: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline
Music Improvisational jazz (Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie), The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Tom Waits, Early Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan Hippie
Novels Jaime Adoff Jimi and Me Rhonda Batchelor She Loves You Holly Black Tithe Jennifer Cowan Earth Girl Rosemary Graham My Not-So-Terrible Time at The Hippie Hotel Mark Peter Hughes Lemonade Mouth Jerry Spinelli Stargirl, Love Scott Westerfeld So Yesterday Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Poets Pablo Neruda, Kenneth Koch, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, James Merrill, Paul Benjamin Auster, John Berryman, Robert Bly, Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes
Movies Hair, Billy Jack, Easy Rider, Good Morning Vietnam, Alice’s Restaurant, Five Easy Pieces, Coming Home, Almost Famous, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Across the Universe, Hairspray, Godspell, Forrest Gump, The US vs. John Lennon, Magical Mystery Tour
Artists Pop Art: Andy Wahol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Jasper Johns Minimalism: Philip Glass, John Adams, Dan Flavin, Piet Mondrian Op Art: M. C. Escher, Guido Molinari, Victor Vasarely
Music Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, CCR “Fortunate Son”, John Lennon “Give Peace a Chance” & “Imagine”, Youngbloods “Get Together”, Pete Seeger “If I had a Hammer” & “Where Have all the Flowers Gone”, Five Man Electrical Band “Signs”, Donovan “Universal Soldier”, Edwin Starr “War”, Coven “One Tin Soldier”, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix.Janis Joplin, Nina Simone "Mississippi Goddamn", The Beatles, e.g. “Stawberry Fields” “Lucy in the Sky with Daimonds” Hip Hop
Novels Sharon Draper Romiette and Julio Lynne Ewing Party Girl Walter Dean Myers Monster
Sharon Bell Mathis Teacup Full of Roses Jill Murray Break On Through Alan Lawrence Sitomer The Hoopster, Hip Hop High School, Homeboyz
Poets Tupac Shakur, Saul Williams, Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Coval, Bridget Gray, GaKnew, Jahaira, Joy Jones, Gina Loring, Miss Kimm, and see Slam Poetry
Movies Wild Style, Boyz in the Hood, Stomp the Yard, Hustle & Flow, Brown Sugar, Beat Street, Krush Groove, Juice, Breakin’, CB4, Fear of a Black Hat, You Got Served, Save the Last Dance, House Party, Center Stage: Turn it Up
Artists Graffiti: lDondi, Futura 2000, Daze, Blade, Lee, Zephyr, Rammellzee, Crash, Kel, NOC 167, Lady Pink
Music Hip Hop: Black Eyed Peas, Run DMC, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Common, Jay-Z, Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Outkast, The Beastie Boys, L.L. Cool J, Queen Latifah, The Fugees, Gangsta Rap: (depicts the violence and crime of street life, which can be from the standpoint of the gangster or some other party. Some gangsta rap glamorizes street life, whereas other examples decry the destruction. It is the most commercially lucrative subgenre of hip hop) Ice T, Snoop Dog, Ice Cube, NWA, 50 Cent, DMX, Notorious BIG, NAS,
Punk
Novels Andrew Auseon JoJo and the Fiendish Lot Cecil Castellucci Beige Andrew Clements Things Not Seen K.L. Going Fat Kid Rules the World Abram Shalom Himelstein and Jamie Schweser Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing Stephanie Kuehnert I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone Joe Meno Hairstyles of the Damned
Poets Jim Carroll
Movies Sid and Nancy, End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, Tapeheads, Rock and Roll High School, Repo Man, Return of the Living Dead, The Punk Rock Movie (from England), New York Doll, Loren Cass, The Great Rock n’ Roll Swindle, The Filth and The Fury, Hard Core Logo, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Clash: Westway to the World, The Basketball Diaries, American Hardcore
Artists - Mostly album covers The Situationists, Jamie Reid, Crass, Winston Smith, John Holmstrom, Bill O’Neil, Gary Panter, Devin Flynn
Music Classic punk: The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Siouxie and the Banshees, Patti Smith, Misfits, NOFX. Neo-punk / punk pop: Green Day, The Offspring, Blink 182, Good Charlotte, Rancid, Simple Plan, Sum 41, The Dead Kennedys Cyberpunk
Novels Douglas Adams The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy M. T. Anderson Feed Isaac Asimov's Foundation Eoin Colfer The Supernaturalist Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? William Gibson Neuromancer Frank Herbert Dune Scott Westerfeld Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras Kristyn Dunnion Big, Big Sky Cory Doctorow Little Brother
Poets
Movies Hackers, The Net, Enemy of the State, The Matrix, The Manchurian Candidate, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Logan’s Run, Coma, Alien, Dawn of the Dead, Mad Max, Scanners, Blade Runner, Tron, Wargames, Johnny Mnemonic, Total Recall, 12 Monkeys, Virtuosity, Gattaca, The Truman Show, Pleasantville, ExistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor, A.I., Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly
Artists
Music Techno (proto-techno, detroit, hardcore, techno-rave): Cosmic Gate, Cascada, Daft Punk, Benny Benassi, Darude, Vinylshakerz, Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, House (chicago house, acid house, deep house...): “Planet Love”, “Better Off Alone”, “Infinity 2008” Riot Grrrl
Novels Laurie Halse Anderson Speak Cat Bauer Harley Like a Person Francesca Lia Block Violet and Claire Cecil Castellucci Beige Rachel Cohn Ginger Bread Sarah Dessen Keeping the Moon Chris Krovatin Heavy Metal and You Carolyn Mackler The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things Blake Nelson Girl Courtney Summers Cracked Up to Be Kristyn Dunnion Big, Big Sky
Poets
Movies Tank Girl, Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl, All Over Me, Long Kiss Goodnight, Bad Girls, Gia, I Shot Andy Warhol, Girls Town, The Quiet, Foxfire, The Craft, Girl, Interrupted
Artists
Music Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Excuse 17, Heavens to Betsy, Huggy Bear Emo
Novels Francesca Lia Block Wasteland Peter Cameron Someday This Pain will be Useful to You Stephen Chobsky The Perks of Being a Wallflower Mark Delaney Pepperland Hillary Frank Better than Running at Night Charlotte Gingras Pieces of Me Judith Guest Ordinary People Alice Hoffman Green Angel Melissa Lion Swollen Patricia McCormick Cut R. P. and Wendy MacIntyre Apart Tracy Mack Birdland Margo Rabb Cures for Heartbreak Courtney Summers Cracked Up to Be Cynthia Voight When She Hollers
Poets Confessional style:
Movies Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink, Say Anything, Ghost World, Velvet Goldmine
Artists
Music Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity and Bleed American, Dashboard Confessional’s The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most and Swiss Army Romane, Sunny Day Real Estate’s Diary, Weezer’s Pinkerton, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Jawbreaker, Mineral, Braid, Rites of Spring, Embrace Goth
Novels Peter Hautman Sweetblood Martine Leavitt Keturah and Lord Death Barry Lyga The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Gothgirl Melissa Marr Wicked Lovely Stephenie Meyer Twilight series Julie Anne Peters Define Normal Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire series Ellen Schreiber Vampire Kisses series Daniel Waters Generation Dead Scott Westerfeld The Last Days, Peeps Beth Fantaskey Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
Poets
Edgar Allan Poe,
Movies
Heathers, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Edward Scissorhands, Rosemary’s Baby, The Birds, Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project, The Lost Boys, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, Queen of the Damned, Donnie Darko, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Pan’s Labyrinth, Twilight
Artists
Music The Damned, Love and Rockets, Lycia, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Mission, All About Eve Winter Words: Hits & Rarities, The Cult The Cult, The Cure Faith, The Sisters of Mercy First, Last, and Always, Depeche Mode Violator, Dead Can Dance A Passage in Time, Marilyn Manson Holy Wood, Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine, Siouxsie and the Banshees Tinderbox, Joy Division Substance, Evanescene Fallen, Bauhaus In the Flat Field, Fields of Nephilim Revelations Straight Edge
Novels Laurie Halse Anderson Winter Girls Holly Black Tithe, Ironside Rachel Cohn & David Levithan Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist Chris Krovatin Heavy Metal and You Noah Levine Dharma Punx: A Memoir Charles Romalotti Salad Days Daniel Waters Generation Dead
Poets
Movies The Edge of Quarrel, Midnight Madness, Threat, Teeth, Boot Camp
Artists
Music Minor Threat, Gorilla Biscuits, Converge, 7 Seconds, Youth of Today, Bane, Fugazi, AFI, The Modern Lovers, State of Alert (S.O.A.), Government Issue, Teen Idles, Reno, Negative FX, Cause for Alarm, The Abused, Judge, Bold, Chain Of Strength, Slapshot. Allegiance, Black My Heart, Casey Jones, Champion, Embrace Today, The First Step, xFilesx, Have Heart, Righteous Jams, Down to Nothing, Throwdown Teddy Boys / Rockers and Greaser / Rockabilly
Novels
S. E. Hinton. The Outsiders Mark Delaney Pepperland
Poets
Movies
Rebel Without a Cause, American Graffiti, Roadracers, Cry-Baby, Grease, Eddie and the Cruisers, Happy Days, The Outsiders, Streets of Fire, The Heavenly Kid, The Wanderers, Lords of Flatbush, Walk the Line, Christine, The Buddy Holly Story
Artists
Music Greaser / Rockabilly: Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes”, Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock”, Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock” & “Heartbreak Hotel”, Chuck Berry’s “Maybellene”, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues”, The Commodores “Whole Lotta Shakin; Goin’ On”, Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire”,
Teddy Boys / Rocker: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Metalhead
Novels Chuck Klosterman Fargo Rock City Chris Krovatin Heavy Metal and You
Poets
Movies Airheads, Detroit Rock City, Wayne’s World, This is Spinal Tap, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey
Artists
Music Grunge
Novels Nick Hornby About a Boy Mark Lindquist Never Mind Nirvana Randy Powell Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star Margo Rabb Cures for Heartbreak
Poets
Movies Hype!, Singles, Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Pearl Jam
Artists
Music Nirvana Nevermind and In Utero, Pearl Jam Ten and Vs., Soundgarden Badmotorfinger and Superunknown, Mother Love Bone Apple, Alice in Chains Dirt and Facelift, Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog, Mud Honey Piece of Cake, Love Battery Dayglo, Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion, Stone Temple Pilots Core and Purple, Smashing Pumkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and Siamese Dreams, Foo Fighters Foo Fighters and The Color and the Shape, Valley Girls
Novels
Francesca Lia Block I Was a Teenage Fairy
Poets
Movies
Heathers, Two Days in the Valley, 90210, The OC
Artists
Music Freak Scene
Novels Peter Cameron Someday This Pain will be Useful to You Cecil Castelucci Boy Proof, The Queen of Cool Francis Chalifour Call Me Mimi Katherine Dunn Geek Love Ron Koertge Stoner and Spaz John Lekich King of the Lost and Found Anne Louise MacDonald Seeing Red Rodman Philbrick Freak the Mighty Karen Rivers X in flight, Y in the Shadows, What Z Sees James St. James Freak Show Yvonne Prinz Vinyl Princess
Poets
Movies The Mighty, Running with Scissors, The Royal Tennenbaums, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, The Squid and the Whale
Artists
Music Dawie Bowie, Frank Zappa Freak Out, Love, Mod
Novels
Frank Portman King Dork
Poets
Movies The Mod Squad,
Artists
Music The Who, No Doubt New Age
Novels
Deborah Davis Not Like You
Poets
Movies
Artists
Music Generation X
Novels
Douglas Coupland Generation X Beaudoin, Sean Going Nowhere Faster
Poets
Movies Reality Bytes,
Artists
Music Rave (r)
Novels Katherine Holubitsky Tweaked Kate McCaffrey In Ecstasy Irvine Welsh Ecstasy, Trainspotting
Poets
Movies
24 Hour Party People
Artists
Music Skater
Novels
Alma Fullerton In the Garage
Poets
Movies
Lords of Dogtown, Clueless, Gleaning the Cube
Artists
Music