An event or moment · 1940 · First contact
The bobby-soxers
Teenagers organised in public, in letterpress newsletters, to buy records and argue about a singer. A press of ten thousand.
The first parasocial mass movement with its own publishing, its own jargon and its own antagonism toward the parents of the people in it. Everything since is a re-skin.
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