PARASOCIALIZE

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.

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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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