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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, etc.

Poets The Bloomsbury Group: T.S. Eliot, , The Algonquin Round Table: Dorothy Parker : Edna St. Vincent Millay,

Movies The Beach, Reds, , Rent, Chelsea Walls, Moulin Rouge, Cabaret, Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle, , Amelie, Point Break. The Shape of Things

Artists Montmartre: and the Incoherents were formed and individuals including , Pierre Brissaud, , Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, , André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, , Maurice Utrillo, Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen

Music The Brill Building Sound: , , Neil Sedaka, , , Bobby Darin (e.g. Among the hundreds of hits written by this group are Leiber and Stoller's "", Shuman and Pomus's "Save The Last 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

Poets 's , Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, , (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 Guard, Howl, Big Fish, One Week, PS I Love You

Artists Dadaism & : Andre Breton, , , , Hans Richter, , Salvador Dali, Yves Tanguy, John Tunnard Abstract : Jackson Pollock, , Mark Rothko, Franz Kline

Music Improvisational jazz (Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie), The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Tom Waits, Early Pink Floyd,

Novels Jaime Adoff Jimi and Me Rhonda Batchelor She Loves You Holly Black Tithe Jennifer Cowan 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, , 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 , Magical Mystery Tour

Artists : Andy Wahol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Jasper Johns : Philip Glass, , Dan Flavin, : M. C. Escher, Molinari, Victor Vasarely

Music , Judy Collins, , Bob Dylan, , CCR “Fortunate Son”, “Give Peace a Chance” & “Imagine”, Youngbloods “Get Together”, ” & “Where Have all the Flowers Gone”, Five Man Electrical Band “Signs”, Donovan “Universal Soldier”, Edwin Starr “War”, Coven “One Tin Soldier”, Jefferson Airplane, .Janis Joplin, "Mississippi Goddamn", , e.g. “Stawberry Fields” “Lucy in the Sky with Daimonds”

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 , 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

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 , Common, Jay-Z, Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Outkast, The Beastie Boys, L.L. Cool J, , The Fugees, : (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, , 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 Nothing Stephanie Kuehnert I Wanna be Your Joe Meno Hairstyles of the Damned

Poets Jim Carroll

Movies Sid and Nancy, End of the Century: The Story of the , Tapeheads, High School, Repo Man, Return of the Living Dead, The Punk Rock Movie (from England), Doll, Loren Cass, The Great Rock n’ Roll Swindle, The Filth and The Fury, Hard Core Logo, The Decline of Western Civilization, : Westway to the World, The Basketball Diaries, American Hardcore

Artists - Mostly covers The Situationists, Jamie Reid, Crass, Winston Smith, John Holmstrom, Bill O’Neil, Gary Panter, Devin Flynn

Music Classic punk: The Ramones, The , The Clash, Siouxie and the Banshees, , Misfits, NOFX. -punk / punk pop: Green Day, The Offspring, Blink 182, Good Charlotte, Rancid, Simple Plan, Sum 41, The Dead Kennedys

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 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, , Pleasantville, ExistenZ, The Floor, A.I., Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly

Artists

Music Techno (proto-techno, detroit, hardcore, techno-rave): Cosmic Gate, Cascada, , Benny Benassi, Darude, Vinylshakerz, Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, , 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 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

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, , 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 , 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, ’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, , All About Eve Winter Words: Hits & Rarities, The Cult, Faith, 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, Substance, Evanescene Fallen, In the Flat Field, Fields of Nephilim Revelations

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 , Gorilla Biscuits, Converge, 7 Seconds, Youth of Today, Bane, , 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 /

Novels

S. E. Hinton. The Outsiders Mark Delaney Pepperland

Poets

Movies

Rebel Without a Cause, , Roadracers, Cry-Baby, , Eddie and the Cruisers, , The Outsiders, Streets of Fire, The Heavenly Kid, The Wanderers, Lords of Flatbush, , Christine, The Buddy Holly Story

Artists

Music Greaser / Rockabilly: ”, and the Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock”, ’s “Jailhouse Rock” & “”, ’s “”, Buddy Holly, ”, The Commodores “Whole Lotta Shakin; Goin’ On”, ”,

Teddy Boys / : The Beatles, , Metalhead

Novels Chuck Klosterman Fargo Rock City Chris Krovatin Heavy Metal and You

Poets

Movies , , Wayne’s World, , Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey

Artists

Music

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,

Artists

Music Nirvana Nevermind and In Utero, Pearl Jam Ten and Vs., Soundgarden Badmotorfinger and Superunknown, 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, , Little Miss Sunshine, The Squid and the Whale

Artists

Music Dawie Bowie, Frank Zappa Freak Out, Love,

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

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